Kiwulekada Vidyalaya - New Desk and Chairs
The school is anticipating an increase in the number of students joining the school this calendar year but unfortunately they are facing a shortage of school desks and chairs to accommodate these new students. Also, they do not have the facilities or resources to undertake new repairs to the exis...
Water tank establishment for Siwurumulla Primary School
WP/KE/ Siwralumulla Primary School, classified as a Type 3 school, is currently facing a critical issue related to their water supply. With a total of 61 students, the school's existing water tank is corroded and in a deteriorating condition and poses a significant risk to both the students a...
Biological Fence to prevent Elephant Crossings
Throughout human evolution, humans co-existed with animals in the wild. Trincomalee North Madawachciya Vidyalaya - Buckmeegama is taking an exploratory step towards strengthening the bond that we as humans have with nature. The school is constantly experiencing elephants roaming across the premis...
Photocopier for schools - MO/ Backinigahawela Primary school
MO/ bakinigahawela primary school and Ana Sangattikulam maha Vidyalaya kindly requested RSL’s support in acquiring a printer or photocopy machine. The school prints around 50 pages daily, which has become financially burdensome given the current economic circumstances. RSL's support in obtain...
Clean Water
Clean Water is a necessity. It should be readily available to everyone. For the past 3 years, the 275 children in Polonnaruwa Galmulla kanishta school has been drinking non purified water simply because they could not afford to get the filter repaired at school. Especially since around 30 peo...
Dunkeld Tamil Vidyalaya - Raincoats, School Bags and supplies
We have been silent for a few months but it doesn't mean we havn't been busy fulfilling our promises by successfully completing our Raise Sri Lanka projects as usual.. hundreds of children and families were helped and we will be updating many projects all in the next upcoming weeks.. sta...
T/TN/Galkadawala Vidyalaya - Tv to improve learning experience
T/TN/Galkadawala Vidyalaya requested assistance from RSL to acquire a 36-inch LED TV for the use of their 89 children. Since it’s a small school with limited resources and the children depend entirely on the school teachers for the curriculum and knowledge the the teachers use materials from the ...
School book donation for 338
There are a lot of children in Sri Lanka who loves to educate themselves but does not have the money and support to continue their education. This is an effort to make those dreams come true for 338 children of Hunupitiya Primary school! We want to thank Apeksha Weerasekara and Ruwinda Hera...
40 new desks and and chairs for the new school year
They kindly request RSL’s support in addressing several critical requirements that are currently impacting the students' educational experience of Pu/ Kammandaluwa Bilingual Kanishka Vidyalaya which schools 350 students. Due to a lack of furniture, multiple students are forced to share a s...
Polonnaruwa Alahara Vidyalaya - Smart TV for educational purposes
Po/Alahara Kanishta Vidyalaya, a rural school with 336 students primarily from farming families, was seeking assistance from RSL to acquire a Smart Board or an equivalent to project the day to day lessons to the students from the internet in the absence of the teachers as well as be able to acces...
Heshalis bday fundraiser - Makewita pandukabhaya School Needs
Makewita K.V caters to approximately 50 students from low-income families who are determined to excel in their studies. As a top priority, the school is was need of a Book Cabinet and a table to keep the Photocopy Machine. They kindly request RSL's assistance in any form possible. The cont...
Mathugama Udugama K.v school_Desktop computer
Udugama K.v is a 1-11 school that is situated in the picturesque setting in the lewwanduwa and occupies around 100 children from financially crippled families. Although the expectation of the school staff is to provide facilities and education of any other school in the nation, they are unable to...
Kandamalawa Vidyalaya - Build a New outdoor Class Room
PROJECT COMPLETION: We are delighted to announce that on October 1st, 2023, Kandamalawa Vidyalaya successfully opened the new classroom for its students and teachers. The school celebrated this momentous occasion with a small ceremony that included an art competition, coinciding with Children'...
Madawachchiya Vidyalaya - Build walls between classrooms
PROJECT COMPLETION: Request to build walls between classrooms - Madawachchiya Vidyalaya As part of our effort to develop 10 different schools in Northeast provinces, Madawachchiya Vidyalaya has been one of the main schools with 300 students that we have been focusing on for extending your help...
Lab equipment for Sangamiththa Balika Vidyalaya Kirindiwela
Sanagamiththa balika vidyalaya Kirindiwela, a distinguished school with around 2500+ children is known for its remarkable achievements in national-level examinations and sports. Despite those successes, they were facing challenges that required RSL support to address following essential resources...
Television for Kambakotte Vidyalaya for educational programs
Trincomalee North Kambakotte Vidyalaya is a Primary school of 143 children and is struggling with low facilities and are facing a severe shortage of teachers. To ensure uninterrupted education for their young students, the academic staff of a substitutional solution by planning to telecast educat...
Desks and chairs for Madawachchiya, gomarankadawala,pulikandikula
Children should have bare minimum facilities to pursuer their education. A desk and a chair to sit on is a “standard” however taken for granted by many. The children in these rural areas celebrate days like these when they No longer has to flock around a single desk with their classmates to fi...
Stephanie's bday fundraiser booklists for Waththekale vidyalaya
Happy bday Stephanie De Silva We are happy to share these amazing pictures of the event held at Badulla with 101 children of Waththekale Vidyalaya, Badulla. The school is in a low-income zone and they have been trying to get the school books for the children since January. Hard truths childre...
Photocopier for 10 schools in Gomarankadawala
Monthly member donations at work We have been helping 10 low-privileged schools in the Gomarankadawala division for the past year. The breakfast program last year uplifted student health while encouraging attendance significantly. This year our focus is to help these schools with their basic ...
Library book for Waradiwela Maha Vidyalaya
Waradiwela maha Vidyalaya, Makuldeniya was donated with 140 books for the library yesterday. These rural schools lack reading materials for their libraries and as a result the children has been facing difficulties following the recommended reading as per the syllabus. Thank you to all our mont...
Vilpanakulama Vidyalaya - Breakfast meal program
Breakfast meal program closure at Vilpanakulama Vidyalaya teaching 78 children from the rural area of Trincomalee. We successfully completed this program in Dec 2022 as starting from 2023 the government subsidy is increased and now the schools will be able to better afford breakfast meals. We ...
Kalyanipura Vidyalaya - Breakfast meal program
Sharing with you the final set of photographs from the breakfast meal program at Kalyanipura Vidyalaya teaching 70 children from the rural area of Trincomalee. We successfully completed this program in Dec 2022 as starting from 2023 the government subsidy is increased and now the schools will be ...
Back to School 2023 - North East
Back to school initiative for 2023 - 2nd round of donations This year for the North Eastern Province Book distribution campaign was across Pulikandikulama, Galkadawala, and Kandamalawa Vidyalaya. We sponsored 159 children across these 3 schools and the children were delighted to receive the n...
Back to school 2023 - Central Province
Back to school initiative for 2023 - 1st round of donations This year for the Central Province campaign of Book lists, we managed to hand-pick 150 children across 28 rural schools. This is a very time-consuming process as the volunteers go into details of finding smaller neglected schools and ...
Sujan's Birthday Fund Raiser - Pamburugaswela Book Donation
A total of 63 students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 studying in Pamburugaswela Vidyalaya at Gomarankadawala wanted help with book lists for the new school term. With the rocketing inflation rates, book list costs are alarmingly high, burdening most low-income families. The book donation is our attemp...
Kiwulekada Vidyalaya - New Desk and Chairs
T/TN/Kiwulekada Vidyalaya reached out to request assistance in acquiring additional school desks and chairs for the growing student population. The school is anticipating an increase in the number of students joining the school this calendar year but unfortunately they are facing a shortage of...
Apeksha’s B’day fundraiser - Urgent need to provide school books
Apeksha Weerasekara's Birthday fundraiser Completion : School materials for children along with equipment for school As part of an urgent request we got from our volunteer, carefully purposing the donations received through this fundraiser, we have managed to purchase and distribute book...
Apeksha’s B’day fundraiser - Urgent need to provide school books
Apeksha’s birthday fundraiser! Our volunteer in Kandy district was approached by a community partner inquiring if our charity could support 20 financially struggling students. We checked back with the schools and obtained formal letters to verify the accuracy of the situation thankfully to the...
Back to school 2022 - 100 children with booklists
Final Donation - 1 - Back to school 2022 - 100 students - Monthly member initiative Last but not the least, we were able to sponsor through our generous month member donations of Dec 2021 to sponsor school books for 100 students. This was arranged in Lakshapana in order to sponsor two rural s...
Hansanie's Giving Tuesday fundraiser-Send kids back to school2022
Back to school 2022 - Donation round 3 It has been a memorable day for 84 children of Patunugama Maha vidyalaya, pulasthigama. This is the first of 3 donations brought to our notice through our charity arm hard truths children's society. The schools are underprivileged and also through...
Hansanie's Giving Tuesday fundraiser-Send kids back to school2022
Back to school 2022 We do not consider school shoes as a necessity, but it clearly defines barriers among children. Just like having to limit the donations to the most needed among the needed. Most of the children in these schools want help, just like the state of the school infrastructure, t...
Hansanie's Giving Tuesday fundraiser-Send kids back to school2022
Back to school initiative for 2022 - 1st round of donations Every year we pick about 10-15 schools from very rural areas of Sri Lanka and handpick students from families who are unable to afford to buy books for the new school year. This is a very time-consuming process as the volunteers go in...
Udapotha Primary school_Desks, chairs and equipment
Desk and chair is a basic need for education? You would think so. Some of these schools in Sri Lanka need help with enough desks and chairs for students. Udupotha Primary school was blessed with more students coming back to school this year. Unlike some years where children drop out due to family...
Gift of Technology to rural schools in Sri Lanka
Delgoda janapada Vidyalaya educating over 150 students is situated in Delgoda, kalawana. The children has been limited to book education of information technology due to the lack of infrastructure of physical computer machines for the school. With your help we were able gift their one operatin...
Gift of Technology to rural schools in Sri Lanka
Abhayapura maha Vidyalaya and Welhena Polpitiya Vidyalaya educate altogether about 400 students within the grades of 1-11. Currently, Abhayapura maha Vidyalaya with 266 students has only two computers that are in really bad shape. Welhena Polpitiya Vidyalaya with 130 students has one computer whi...
Online educational needs - Hansanie’s birthday fundraiser
Successful completion of yet another birthday fundraiser. We managed to donate 8 mobile/tab devices to the most suitable children in the districts of Polonnaruwa, Ratnapura, Thissamaharama to help with pursuing better dreams. Thank you for all your generous contributions (list of contributors ...
Online educational needs - Hansanie’s birthday fundraiser
The online education devices for these 3 familes in Ratnapura (for the education of 7 children in total) were handed over by our volunteer. The children who would benefit from this donation are between the Ages of 10 - 17 years of age and there are couple of them who are sitting for the O/L a...
Online educational needs - Hansanie’s birthday fundraiser
These letters that were written by the children themselves is really heartbreaking.. they are not asking for a lot. To continue with their studies they want technology. They are Not asking for the high tech latest version of technology, but a basic tab/phone for them to join for online education....
Online educational needs - Hansanie’s birthday fundraiser
Project update  Help child in Thissamaharama - the father of this family called us saying last week that the children has not been having education for months now and if we can help with a device that helps them continue their education. The family does not have a phone and the neighbor has b...
Kumi's Birthday Fundraiser to Educate children of rural schools
The 4th school, Halwala kannangara Maha vidyalaya was donated with a photocopier to continue the studies during lockdown. This initiative was made possible as part of a birthday fundraiser by Kumi Wickramanayake The four schools that were helped with USD 1007 fundraiser is as follows 1. Ala...
Kumi's Birthday Fundraiser to Educate children of rural schools
As part of Kumi’s bday fundraiser, a hand off of a photo copy machine for the learning from home sessions and a audio speaker for daily meetings was made to the following schools. 2. Patunugama Kanishta school Photocopy machine to make copies of the books and study material for the childre...
Kumi's Birthday Fundraiser to Educate children of rural schools
Happy bday @Kumi Wickramanayaka.! In your own words "I believe that there's a direct correlation between providing an education and reduction in poverty, hence the preference towards such projects." -~ this is a very strong message we all would carry in our hearts. Thank you for your g...
G/Lelwala Wickramasinghe School - New Library
It’s a N-O F-R-I-L-L-S rural poor school in Galle. The children doesn’t have matching outfits for their dance performances.. their best white uniform is blue after washing and trying to get stains out. The school has to provide the children the only meal to keep them coming back to school .....
First Computer and technology to Rural galle Vidyalaya
Thank you for your birthday fundraiser Sujan Duminda It has been a long wait for us, but it was definitely a much much longer wait for Galle Lelwala kanishta Vidyalaya, Wanduraba.. the students of this poor rural school were learning computer technology with the use of photocopies of printed s...
Build Water tank tower for rural Pre school in Sirikanduyaya
Can you imagine that your school didn't have running water or you had toilets without a water tap? Why is it essential to have safe water and adequate facilities at school? A child would spend six hours a day in the school for five days. A clean water system gives kids a place to wash thei...
Upuldeniya Vidyalaya Classroom Project
The internal plastering and painting of the Upuldeniya Vidyalaya classroom is now complete. The teachers say that the children are overwhelmed to get a new room for their studies. The external plastering work of the classroom would be competed this week and the we would also help them with ir...
Rural school in Walihelathanna gets school books and cupboards
A very rural school called Mugunuwala primary school is in Walihelathanna village in Sabaragamuwa district. The school was formed in 1960 in a little shed with 15 students. And eventually, in 1985 the numbers grew up to 186 students. But due to the rural nature of the village and its inhabitants,...
Renovate Rural School of 40 kids - Siyabalanduwa 😊
Part 2 of the Siyabalanduwa school renovation project. This bit was literally the cherry on the beautiful cake . Happy birthday, Yuvain. The happy smiles on the small kids to get special cake is not an everyday thing in their life. And it’s memorable to be part of such a kind gesture. The...
Shenal's B'day Fundraiser for computer for illupipukanniya School
Shenal Dedduwakumara, Thank you for your Birthday fundraiser to get together with your wife Ashini, good friends and family to help a rural school with Educational facilities. Galebindunuwewa Illupipukanniya Vidyalaya got their VERY FIRST COMPUTER for their school yesterday. It was a memorable...
Help school with new desks and chairs for new school year
Mugunuwala Primary School is situated in the rural village of Walihelathenna in the depths of the Sabaragamuwa Province. The school started back in 1960 with only 15 students in merely what could be called a shed and somehow grew to have 185 students by 1985. As time passed, the attendance declin...
Renovate playground for Nagamagal Tamil Vidyalaya
Every child deserves a childhood. We believe It defines their perspective of life ! Nagamagal Tamil Vidyalaya is situated in the hill top of Madadumbara in Central province. Majority of the children who attend this school is from low income families in the estate sector. Their parents are ille...
BACK TO SCHOOL 2021
BOOKLIST DONATION (2) - The children in Habarawatta Watakoluwagama village school has a lot of families who are at the poverty level and struggling to meet ends meet. Due to the current pandemic, their daily jobs and other unsteady sources of income are impacted heavily Our volunteers in the A...
BOOKLIST DONATION (1) - The children in Maradankadawala Thalahena village
BOOKLIST DONATION (1) - The children in Maradankadawala Thalahena village have their own set of issues that they cannot go to school.. Most of these children are at the poverty level, living off selling vegetables and other crops with their parents. And these areas are constantly faced with the h...
full book list for Alliyadda Primary school, Weerapitiya
The schools have finally started amid the pandemic and we were able to distribute the full book list for 21 students who have financial difficulties of Alliyadda Primary school, Weerapitiya We got the request from this school last November stating that the children need books for the upcoming ...
UPCOMING - The children of Sandamalgama Vidyalaya will get a classroom
UPCOMING - The children of Sandamalgama Vidyalaya will get a classroom this week so they can start school! This rural school has two halls. All 125 students across all grades are fit into it. As we were mentioning earlier, this school has been closed for the longest time due to financial diffi...
GO BACK TO SCHOOL
This attempt is for the kids who are below the poverty line and has family conditions we pray to stay untouched of, to GO BACK TO SCHOOL. These kids have missed school for months and months this year already because of the school shutdown and they do not have the facilities for remote learning. ...
Donate school book list -Ridee Ella
“The little kids who received gift packs were holding back big happy tears.”.- Ms. Kumari (English teacher) said. Through our friend, Dhananjaya, we got to know that Ridee ella Vidyalaya, Delwala students of all grades have been in need of essential supplies for some time now. When Ms. Kumari ...
Sujan's Birthday Fund Raiser - Pamburugaswela Book Donation
A total of 63 students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 studying in Pamburugaswela Vidyalaya at Gomarankadawala wanted help with book lists for the new school term. With the rocketing inflation rates, book list costs are alarmingly high, burdening most low-income families. The book donation is our attemp...
Rural school in Walihelathann
A very rural school called Mugunuwala primary school is in Walihelathanna village in Sabaragamuwa district. The school was formed in 1960 in a little shed with 15 students. And eventually, in 1985 the numbers grew up to 186 students. But due to the rural nature of the village and its inhabitants,...
Mugunuwala Primary School -School Supplies
With your help we were able to assist another Rural School, Mugunuwala primary school which is in Walihelathanna village in Sabaragamuwa district. The school was in desperate need for essential supplies for their library. They were using school desks to manage their library. We donated a library ...
Photocopy Machine to Patunugama Kanishta School
Patungama Kanishta School was in need of a photocopy machine to make copies of books, past papers and other study material for the children. Most of the students in this school are from lowincome families and parents couldn’t afford the need for photocopying requirements. With the help from our ...
Computer and a Photo Copy Machine for Sirikanduyaya School
The education ministry had provided a laptop for this school. But the laptop is not in working condition and funds are not available for a replacement. We donated a computer for the children of this school so that they can continue to learn new technology and their information technology curricul...
First Computer and technology to Rural galle Vidyalaya
It has been a long wait for us, but it was definitely a much much longer wait for Galle Lelwala kanishta Vidyalaya, Wanduraba.. the students of this poor rural school were learning computer technology with the use of photocopies of printed screens and drawings of what a computer could do.. it has...
G/Lelwala Wickramasinghe School - New Library
It’s a N-O F-R-I-L-L-S rural poor school in Galle. The children doesn’t have matching outfits for their dance performances.. their best white uniform is blue after washing and trying to get stains out. The school has to provide the children the only meal to keep them coming back to school .....
First library for Niyangandora Viduhala
Our next goal is to help a very rural school called Niyangandora Viduhala, Kothmale for providing with their very first library. Due to lack of capacity in their school building they are renovating an old bus to be used as their new library. We got few pictures of the unit and it looks great and ...
