Tangalle Children - Library & Lab

NEWS - Mr. & Mrs. Wolfgang (Frau Eva) from Munich has made a generous contribution to our library project to by over 18 very important books that were needed. Thank you dear Mr. & Mrs. Wolfgang for your great contribution. Photos
OUR NEW LIBRARY AND LABORATORY PROJECT - 2009
28 01 2009
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A DREAM SINCE TWO YEARS AND LOTS OF THINKING HAVE COME TO A REALITY TODAY By mid of June, we have over 600 members regularly benifitting this project. As the exam is closer, the home is full in many days.

One of our guest Mr. Withanage, who is second in charge of Naval at Tangalle, cutting the ribbon for official opening of the project.	Then he was proceeding to light the oil lamp as a ritual Sri Lankan Custom.

Then every body was followed by the Buddhist Monks preaching to get blessed for the success of the project.	Here all our students and participants were sitting and getting blessed by Monks.

The monks then offered the sacred water to every one to share the blessing.	Finally a white string was tied around the wrist of each person for the protections of many evils and unseen powers.

Then it was time to light a hearth to boil coconut milk in a pot until it boils over and split out. That will mark the prosperous and abundance of every possible requests.	Here is the seen of splitting the milk after boiling. Everybody is happy to see this moment as to that will make the future successful and prosperous.

Then, it was time to treat the guests with sweets and Milk rice with Chili sambol.

This is Gayani Kanchana, who is in charge of the place. She seems happy to have this Job.	We have bought a used Cupboard to keep the books and library items.

Here is the reserved space for students in the library.	Another space for the same purpose.

Two students who came to library are searching some of the books they needed.	Here they are doing their home work as the first project benefiiaries.
After one month of the opening, the house is full with students from early in the morning to late afternoon.

Back part of the house, date 28th Feb 2009	Front part of the house.
On third of March 2009, we had students over the capacity and they were disperate to leave the place.

It is a bit warmer these as the hot sun shines. We have put a fan to keep the place cool.	Tdoay we have over 30 students, but we only had place for 25. We are looking for other possibilitied to give them a chance for their studies in the future.

TCR staff is very paud and happy to see this project is successful and meet our goals more that what we expected.	We hope to develop this project for a better service in the future.

New books are donated to our library	Students are happy to have these new books.

The place has a room reserved for a kitchen,	and a bathroom with toilet.

This is the space reserved for Laboratory and practical tests.	The small balcony is now utilized for any purpose as it was now covered with glass.

Here is the ground floor seen from the main road.	The whole building TCR has rented at the centre of Tangalle town.
HOW YOU CAN HELP THIS PROJECT TO GIVE A BETTER SERVICE TO OUR STUDENTS AT TANGALLE?
Update: June 2009 After six months completion, TCR has achieved its highest target in its library project by recording over six hundred students visiting the library regularly. Since the month June, there are over crowded students as it has only 6 weeks for their exam. There main concern is a place for them to work. As it was a big concern for us, we arranged them a place in our second youth hostel premises. But this home is about 700m away from the existing project. But some students still prefer going there rather going back home. The reason why the students prefer visiting our library is the background suitable for them to work competitively. At home or at other boarding homes, they feel lazy or sleepy. But our library is compact and controlled by our supervisor. So the students have no chance of being lazy or strolling around. That they eventually made to work. This is the type of condition that the most students prefer and they regularly visit our library. Some students travel over 50km daily to attend our library just because here they are made to work. Update: February 2009 After two weeks of the project opening, many students are visiting the library for inquiries. As this is a unique project, the students have risks and questions on how this project is operating and if the service cost? Also many students inquired about the laboratory items as it was very critical service they wanted. But unfortunately we are not ready to provide laboratory service yet, as the financial situation does not meet the target to buy a set of lab items. We have already checked the market and found out that cost over 300000 Rs. unless we do not find this money, we will not be able to provide this urgent service for the community. So we kindly request you to join us to share this cost together. Please contact us and we will provide you more details in every side. We will be very pleased to hear from you and your interest on this unique service. In the mean time, instead of buying the complete set of lab items, we will work to buy in partially to meet our basic needs first. So you can even help in any amount to make this a reality. Thank you. Mahendra Andrahennadige, Manager - Tangall Children Relay. CONTACT US