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US organisation promotes local English education
The US based Serendib Organisation has planned an English and Peace Education campaign for children between the age of 11 and 16 commencing in August, Serendib President Tucker McCravy said.

He said that the programme will be open to all children in Sri Lanka and Serendib plans to recruit 150 children from all the religions to enhance peace and harmony in the country. Mr. McCravy said that the teachers are trained to build leadership, creativity, trust and tolerance among children and educate them on the subject of Information Technology.

He said that the teacher-training is more valuable as even after the training camp is over the teachers will keep on passing the knowledge they received to the children. Therefore the message will spread more expediently.

The Serendib Organisation which is funded by USAID has established themselves from 1997 and have held English training camps for 3,500 children in Sabaragamuwa Province.

Mr. McCravy said that the budget for Serendib’s All Island programme is estimated to be US$ 16,000 as they hope to receive funding from other NGOs and from the corporate sector of the island. He said that the Education Ministry has been extremely supportive of their efforts to empower the Sri Lankan future generation with the knowledge of English. The curriculum of Serendib is being used by the Ministry as well.

Mr. McCravy said that the training campaign will be assisted by foreign teacher assistants from USA, Canada and Thailand who have backgrounds in Engineering, English training, Public Health, Law and Business. Interested parties could contact The Serendib to enrol their children to the Training Camp on E-mail stucker@serendib.us.

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