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Wow! Only one more month in Sri Lanka! Tempus fugit – time flies – as the expression goes.

We had a last minute project request that I finished up earlier this week. It was one of those quick-n-dirty little projects I like to end the season with. A cousin in the extended family with whom I live, Suhi, asked our help in setting up a Math Lab at his alma mater, Hindu College, here in Batticaloa.

August is over, and all our big projects, especially those involving schools, are finished. The last school-based project, barring one (see below) was the fence around the school in Mangikkadu. It was completed a week or so ago, just before the start of school. So yes school is in; it began last Monday, the 7th of September, much to the sorrow of uncounted Sri Lankan kids, and the exhausted relief of their parents.

I am thrilled to announce a brand-new major project at St. Cecilia’s Girls’ School, where we sent all those English-language books last year. Sister Elizabeth, the principal, and one of the most admirable of people I know here, has been asking for our help on expanding and upgrading the school computer lab. In addition, she’s been trying to get a scanner, and multimedia projector system, as well as a computer for the English Library. The cost for all this, even in Sri Lanka, is formidable, and beyond our means; just the 20 computers alone would use up most of our project budget.