Project:
This picturesque village has a beautiful irrigation reservoir and the village temple, where the chief incumbent
Ven. Tampitiye Gnananda Thero gives an exemplary leadership to the families living there. A camp of the police Special Task
Force (STF) provides security to the village which had earlier been subjected to several terrorist attacks.
SUCCESS organization (Wayamba) commenced a Preschool Development Program for remote villages in 1992.
A total of 51 preschools were inaugurated of which 30 are being totally managed by us.
I-FREED of Houston, Texas donated $500 in September 2003 for supplying educational equipment to the preschools conducted by SUCCESS (Wayamba). Mr. Lionel Tennakoon of I-FREED accompanied us to Tampitiya to hand over the first donation to this school. After observing the dilapidated state of the school building, Mr. Tennakoon promised further assistance from I-FREED to construct a new building. The initial donation of $500 was received from I-FREED and work commenced in August 2004.
After reviewing the progress of construction work, a further donation of $300 was received from I-FREED.
The new building was completed and ceremoniously opened by members of SUCCESS (Wayamba) on May 1, 2005.
The building comprising a spacious class room and an inner room is 20’ x 40’ in size.
At prevailing rates, the project would have cost over Rs.200,000 ($2,000) but expenses were minimized using bricks made at the site, using voluntary labour and the provision of free transport of cement, sand and timber by the STF camp.
In addition, parents of the school children helped by providing voluntary services.
SUCCESS Wayamba expresses its sincere thanks on behalf of the village of Tampitiya to I-FREED for their generous support.
