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• Project Completed Update! (See below)
• Location: Mangikkadu, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
• Recipients:30 students, two teachers
• Objective:Security fence for a school
• Final cost:$590 US

The school and weakly fenced in grounds.

Mangikkadu, the site of one of our water tank projects, is a village of 127 households about 9 km west of Batticaloa. It is on the opposite (“land-side”) shore of the lagoon that separates Batticaloa from the interior. Until 2007 it was LTTE-held territory. This meant that development was almost non-existent before the government re-took the area, and today development is an extremely slow process.

Well, I feel a lot better today. Yesterday I was sick. Every year around this time I seem to get some sort of 24 hour virus. It’s a typical cold; fever, congestion, cough and some joint pain. Getting a cold in the tropics is miserable because with the fever you are never comfortable.