The Yorkshire School in Sri Lanka rebuild

As the children toured the new school buildings for the first time they were all wearing the circular yellow fund raising stickers, these were a great sucess in the Yorkshire Schools and the students in Sri Lanka were very proud to wear them.
This picture was taken on our visit to the KSV in September, and shows some of the happy children in the new two storey building.
A big THANK YOU to Wright Label Printer of Skipton who donated the sticker at the launch of the appeal.

Sixty Rotarians and friends battled over the ten pin lanes at Matrix Bowling in Skipton on Thursday 2nd November to raise funds for the "Yorkshire School in Sri Lanka". Teams from Settle, Elland as well as teams from Skipton & Skipton Rotaract enjoyed an evening of fellowship and fun though sadly Thirsk got their dates mixed up.
The team from Elland were the overall winners and also scored the highest points.
The funds raised on the evening amount to £130.60p and Matrix have generously offered to donate a further £200.00p to the appeal.

This is the second fund raising event held at the Matrix and the Committee thank them for their continued support.

A total of £160,000.00p (four payments of £40,000.00p) have now been made to the Schools Re-awaken project through the Standard Charter Bank in Sri Lanka - for construction of the "Yorkshire School", this amounts to Rs29,691,976.00 in local monies.
A further payment of £40,000.00p will be made in November with the remainder of the appeal monies being forwarded in December.

All payments are based on the Tender Bill of Quantities/Drawings and backed up with upto date photographs.

This is the biggest appeal ever attempted by District 1040 and has been extremely sucessful, it has far exceeded all our expectations.

The school appeal has now raised the fantastic sum of £234,630.00p on top of this we have just been awarded a Rotary Foundation Charity grant of £12,970.00p towards the cost of the plumbing, drainage and electrical services inside the building, landscaping and security fencing externally.
The grand total now raised for the construction of the school amounts to £247,600.00p.

The total building cost for the construction of the Yorkshire School amounts to £266,000.00p

Monies are still being raised and donated to the appeal.

The Student Executive Council from Driffield School have donated the fantastic sum of £465.00p to the "Yorkshire School" the monies were raised from their non-uniform day held on the last day of term.
Mr Green the headteacher said "The council have asked me to pass on their very best wishes to you with your endeavours".

A certificate will be produced and presented to the school to thank all the students for helping to change the lives of the children affected by the Tsunami in Sri Lanka.

A group of 20 Rotarians and partners visited Sri Lanka between the 20th & 28th September to meet with local Rotarians and all those involved with the construction of the "Yorkshire School". We also had meetings with the APEX committee, Standard Charter Bank (bankers for the project) the Ministry of Education, the Deputy Headmaster and the teachers from the KSV school.

Unfortunately due to the fragile security situation it was not considered safe for the whole group to visit our school so only two attended. They reported back claiming the project to be a massive sucess. The two storey building being vertually complete and being finally fitted out, the two three storey buildings were having the top floors laid, toilet block and headmasters house having being completed some months ago. The school is now 70-75% complete with the projected finish date being the end of December 2006.



While in Sri Lanka the whole group visited Randombe School, this was the first school in the Re-awaken project to open. We were greeted by dancing children and we were all presented with garlands and spent a very emotional but rewarding four hours in their company during which time they fed us and entertained us with both music and dance, we were also invited into the classrooms and attended their Interact meeting.

This visit has helped to identify many areas of future support and also to understand the Local Education system.