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Int’l aid group rehabilitates four tsunami-hit schools
By Heshan Priyatilake
Round Table International Association President Tom Albrigsten visited Sri Lanka earlier this month to oversee the implementation of a US $ 2 million tsunami rehabilitation project funded by the association.

The project includes the reconstruction and refurbishment of four schools which were affected by the tsunami. The largest project is the reconstruction and total refurbishment of the Hegalle Maha Vidyalaya in Kosgoda which educated over 1600 children before the tsunami struck on December 26 last year.

“The tsunami left only two of the ten buildings in the school intact” said Mr. Tushar Amalean, president of the Round Table Association in Sri Lanka. The association plans to totally reconstruct the damaged school buildings. This 130 million rupee project is to be completed by June next year.

Thirty million rupees are to be invested in rehabilitating the Punitha Arulanander Vidyalaya in Batticaloa attended by around 250 children. Mr. Amalean said the Round Table Association would provide facilities such as a fully furnished computer lab and a children’s play area. This project is also to be completed by June next year.The other two schools the organization will redevelop are both in Kosgoda.

Mr. Amalean said that after the reconstruction of the schools, the Round Table Organization hopes to affiliate them with schools in the United Kingdom, so that teacher exchange programs can take place, to enable new ideas and teaching methods to be exchanged between the two countries. Students from these four schools in Sri Lanka will also be able to go on exchange programs to selected British schools.

The Round Table Association in Sri Lanka is the branch of an international aid organization, Round Table International that is spread over 70 countries and has more than 4000 members.

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