Hello everyone, I like to take this opportunity to praise all our wonderful school children who participated the essay contest. We received over 2000 essays during the competition. It was a difficult time with Island wide curfew and limited access to everything around. Fortunately, many kids participated and there were so many good essays. Even…
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Day 2 – Distributing free masks to school children in Sri Lanka. I was happy to visit three schools in Kesbewa area yesterday. A very warm thank you to Mrs. Madara Chandrarathna, deputy principal of Dharmasena Attigala Balika Vidyalaya for facilitating both the primary schools events and Mr. Pathum Sanjeewa, principal of Makandara Sri Sudarshana…
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This school needs much help and I ask those who can help, to lend a hand here. Very small school close to Colombo yet need the attention of everyone. Very enthusiastic, determined and young school principal who is also new to the school, trying her very best to keep this school going for the low…
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I was overwhelmed by the warm welcome here in this rural school. I have to say even though it is small and away from a major city, the principal and the staff has done a wonderful job. All the students were neatly dressed and were very courteous to their teachers and principle. Unfortunately only a…
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I was very happy and humble to see all the smiling little faces again. This is the second school in Negombo we visited yesterday. Again a big thank you to all the members from ‘Helping Sri Lanka Children’ who came to support.
Hello everyone, I had a great first day yesterday distributing free masks to school children. I have to thank all the members, including Suresh Wasantha from ‘Helping Sri Lanka Children’ who came to support the events and all the school principals, teachers and students. We were able to visit four schools yesterday and I will be visiting…
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Sunrise from the historical Kuragala Ancient Buddhist Monastery. It’s about 40 minutes hike to the top. This historic place should be protected regardless of the different religious beliefs. It’s unfortunate to see eye soaring structures built around the Monastery. Kuragala is a prehistoric archaeological site with ruins of ancient Buddhist Cave temple complex, dating back…
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Two more week to go…-‘Write & Win – School Essay Competition 2020’ ends on June 30th.-Don’t be late. Write your essay today and send it to us.-TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRIZES TO BE WON WORTH OVER THREE AND A HALF MILLION RUPEES-A chance to meet and greet Miss England Dr Bhasha Mukherjee
I am thrilled to announce that the Karuna Together Foundation has partnered with Srilanka Children to supply 25,000 face masks to underprivileged school children. I have committed to fund this project initially for 25,000 masks as per the requests by many school principals. We currently have over 15 schools requesting over 18,000 masks from many areas and…
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I had a meeting this afternoon with Mr. Rajiv Gunasena, Managing Director of M. D. Gunasena & Company and also with his team. There is a request from our media sponsor, Vijaya Newspapers asking to extend the Essay Competition by another month to July 31. I already have planned travel, but agreed to extend it…
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