- Project Completed!
- Location: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
- Recipients:1,500 students
- Objective:Replace school’s musical instruments
- Final cost:$2,500 US
This was truly a last minute project. After the St. Cecilia’s Multimedia Project was completed, there was a balance of funds left over. The project sponsor, Angela, had donated a quantity of funds to be used specifically for St. Cecilia’s Girls’ School, with the multimedia equipment as the priority. Next was the schools’ music program.
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- Project Completed!
- Location: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
- Recipients:1,500 students
- Objective:High-tech equipment to aid teaching
- Final cost:$2,100 US
This is a great example of ABDF acting as a conduit for other people to carry out their own projects. We were contacted by Angela, a woman living in South Carolina. She was a St. Cecilia’s Girls’ School alumna and had recently reconnected with her old school chums in Batti and around the world. She expressed a desire to help her old alma mater, which was the site out our English Library Project.
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- Project Completed!
- Location: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
- Recipients:1,100 students, 9 math teachers
- Objective:Set up a math lab
- Final cost:$175 US
Hindu College’s main building.
Project Director Bennett Hinkley was recently approached by his friend Suhi, a guy who had just taken his Advanced Level math exam. (The A-Level is an annual national set of exams used to determine eligibility for university.) Suhi was a graduate of Hindu College in Batticaloa and had come up with the idea of creating a math lab at his alma mater in order to promote math studies among undergraduates. In this he has teamed up with Mrs. Lingusthavam, the head of the schools’ Math Department.
Meet Mrs. Lingusthavam, head of the Math Department.
- Project Completed! (See below)
- Location: Zahira IDP Camp, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
- Recipients:124 war-displaced families
- Objective:Give refugees a day of fun!
- Final cost:$45 US
Zahira is a small IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp of 124 families on the outskirts of Batticaloa. The people were displaced from their village near Sampur, near Trincomalee to the north, two years ago at the beginning of the final phase of the civil war. Traditionally farmers, they have been living in this small camp awaiting resettlement. Unfortunately, the government security forces declared their village and farms a High Security Zone, meaning that they will not be allowed to move back to their homes. The tight-knit group has been assigned land to the north of Batti, and is scheduled to be relocated next month, finally.
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- Project Completed Update! (See below)
- Location: Valachenai, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
- Recipients:1 family
- Objective:Leak-proof roof
- Final cost:$190 US
Mrs. Sinnathampi stands in front of her house.
ABDF was shown this house by the Valachenai Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) at the same time we saw the house that has become ABDF's Valachenai SVP Roof Project #1. In fact, this home is right next to that home. It is the residence of Mr. Kanthapar Sinnathampi, his wife Vairaththai, and their 16 year old son, Vijikaran. Mr. Sinnathampi has a series of health problems which keep him in and out of hospital (he was in hospital when ABDF visited the site), leaving Mrs. Sinnathampi to keep things at home in line. Vijikaran is currently in 10th grade at a local public school.
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