Primary school students of Sri Lanka will be getting a chance to own a $ 100 laptop under a new educational expansion project.
The officials of the ‘One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)’ are currently conducting discussions with the Sri Lankan Government authorities about introducing these laptops.
The Minister of Education has responded favourably to the matter while President Mahinda Rajapaksa is also encouraging the project.
‘One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)’ is a US-based organization that partners with several technological and academic institutions. Working with local partners and governments worldwide, it aims to get the learning tool into children’s hands.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Scarlett Johansson makes donation to Lankan School
Hollywood Actress Scarlett Johansson has donated `a large sum` to a poverty-stricken school in Sri Lanka after the children there left her overcome with emotion during a recent visit.
The 22-year-old traveled to Sri Lanka and India with aid workers from the international charity group Oxfam - and claims that the highlight was the time she spent with kids at an under- privileged school in Sri Lanka. Johansson tells PlanetGossip.eonline.com, `The most gratifying opportunity was visiting a Dalit school. The Dalit community is considered the lowest status in the caste system, and children as young as four are working the fields.` The actress` hand-out will financially support the school for the next three years.
She has steered clear of the Hollywood party scene and is actually known for being a good actress as apposed to being a tabloid star, kudos to her!
Meanwhile, the Lost In Translation star is currently planning a trip to U.S. Army bases overseas with the United Service Organisation (USO). Her publicist says, `It will be in early 2008 and for about a week. I can`t give out more than that for security reasons.`
On Monday, Scarlett was honoured with the Icon award at Elle magazine`s Women in Hollywood tribute at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Source : Lankanewspapers
The 22-year-old traveled to Sri Lanka and India with aid workers from the international charity group Oxfam - and claims that the highlight was the time she spent with kids at an under- privileged school in Sri Lanka. Johansson tells PlanetGossip.eonline.com, `The most gratifying opportunity was visiting a Dalit school. The Dalit community is considered the lowest status in the caste system, and children as young as four are working the fields.` The actress` hand-out will financially support the school for the next three years.
She has steered clear of the Hollywood party scene and is actually known for being a good actress as apposed to being a tabloid star, kudos to her!
Meanwhile, the Lost In Translation star is currently planning a trip to U.S. Army bases overseas with the United Service Organisation (USO). Her publicist says, `It will be in early 2008 and for about a week. I can`t give out more than that for security reasons.`
On Monday, Scarlett was honoured with the Icon award at Elle magazine`s Women in Hollywood tribute at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Source : Lankanewspapers
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Help Amal : Cancer patient
Hi my Friends,
This is not a chain letter or an email that should be forwarded to anyone else. I am sending this mail to all of you, because you are all known to me. I am asking for some help for a very close friend of mine - and this is just a request only. Please don't take it as something that you are compelled to do. I don't have the means to totally help him.
I am briefly giving you the story behind the two pictures attached in my other email, as I dont have scanning facilities at home - the photographs will be sent to you by tomorrow.
I am sure some of you know who Amal is, and what happened to him. He took some of you to WILD WADI while he was working at Madinat Jumeirah. To the ones who don't know him - Amal is a very good and close friend of mine. He is 30 years now. The two photographs attached are ones that show before and after a Brain Tumor operation which he underwent in December 2004. It was such a terrible shock to all of us.
Amal worked at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from June 2004 and was falling quite ill. Subsequently, after an MRI scan done at the Iranian hospital it was revealed that he had a maligned tumor which had to be operated immediately. Praise be to God - the hotel agreed to pay the total hospital bill, and the outside medicins he had to take which helped him and his family immensely. He was warded at the Asiri Hospital and the operation was done by Dr. Sunil Perera. The operation was a success and he was up and about, although there were few side effects from time to time.
He came back to work but could not work in the kitchen deparment and the management gave him a less stressful job at the Spa, where he workd until October 2006. He was falling ill from time to time and decided to leave Dubai to join his family, get married and settle down permanently in Sri Lanka. He happily started a small business of his own with the money he had saved in Dubai and somehow unfortunately he fell ill again and to my shock he sent me an sms last Wednesday (12th Sept) saying that he has to undergo another operation (a second tumor just above his eye), on Tuesday (18th Sept). This was a little too much for me and for the ones who knew him to take it in.
However, I called him today, and his sister answered the phone and said that the operation had to be done TODAY, and he thank God, he was conscious after the operation. But we still don't know the after effects. The operation was done at the General Hospital, by Dr. Sunil Perera once again, so no money is required as Operation charges. But, after 01 month, he has to bear quite a lot of expenses travelling up and down from Negombo to the Maharagama Cancer hospital for treatment there, for at least 1 1/2 months.
He has to find alternate accommodation somewhere close to Maharagama, transportation, medicines, nourishment and etc.etc. He is the eldest in the family with 01 younger sister and lives with his father and mother towards the interior of Negombo.
Amal has been a very good friend to all who were in contact with him. He helped people whenever he could by his going out to places they did not know, and in whatever way he could and wherever he was, there was laughter. Yes, that is one thing that I admire most in him. He made us all laugh.
Friends who are not in Sri Lanka - Amal's Bank Account no. is given below. I leave it to you to decide on what contribution you can make.
Amal Suranga Senerath Yapa - Bank of Ceylon Negombo Branch - 1409358
Friends who are in Sri Lanka - Amal's sister or father will be carrying his mobile - 077 3656748. He is at the General Hospital Neurology Intensive care Unit right now. Whoever can visit him or call him on my behalf, please do so. More than anything, please pray that God will give him the strenght to recover.
I don't know how I put all these words together. There's so much more that I have to say, but I just cannot go on.
Even if you cannot help him finanacially, please keep in your prayers.
Thank you so much for all your help.
God bless you
Renuka
Mobile 00971 50 8597880
This is not a chain letter or an email that should be forwarded to anyone else. I am sending this mail to all of you, because you are all known to me. I am asking for some help for a very close friend of mine - and this is just a request only. Please don't take it as something that you are compelled to do. I don't have the means to totally help him.
I am briefly giving you the story behind the two pictures attached in my other email, as I dont have scanning facilities at home - the photographs will be sent to you by tomorrow.
I am sure some of you know who Amal is, and what happened to him. He took some of you to WILD WADI while he was working at Madinat Jumeirah. To the ones who don't know him - Amal is a very good and close friend of mine. He is 30 years now. The two photographs attached are ones that show before and after a Brain Tumor operation which he underwent in December 2004. It was such a terrible shock to all of us.
Amal worked at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from June 2004 and was falling quite ill. Subsequently, after an MRI scan done at the Iranian hospital it was revealed that he had a maligned tumor which had to be operated immediately. Praise be to God - the hotel agreed to pay the total hospital bill, and the outside medicins he had to take which helped him and his family immensely. He was warded at the Asiri Hospital and the operation was done by Dr. Sunil Perera. The operation was a success and he was up and about, although there were few side effects from time to time.
He came back to work but could not work in the kitchen deparment and the management gave him a less stressful job at the Spa, where he workd until October 2006. He was falling ill from time to time and decided to leave Dubai to join his family, get married and settle down permanently in Sri Lanka. He happily started a small business of his own with the money he had saved in Dubai and somehow unfortunately he fell ill again and to my shock he sent me an sms last Wednesday (12th Sept) saying that he has to undergo another operation (a second tumor just above his eye), on Tuesday (18th Sept). This was a little too much for me and for the ones who knew him to take it in.
However, I called him today, and his sister answered the phone and said that the operation had to be done TODAY, and he thank God, he was conscious after the operation. But we still don't know the after effects. The operation was done at the General Hospital, by Dr. Sunil Perera once again, so no money is required as Operation charges. But, after 01 month, he has to bear quite a lot of expenses travelling up and down from Negombo to the Maharagama Cancer hospital for treatment there, for at least 1 1/2 months.
He has to find alternate accommodation somewhere close to Maharagama, transportation, medicines, nourishment and etc.etc. He is the eldest in the family with 01 younger sister and lives with his father and mother towards the interior of Negombo.
Amal has been a very good friend to all who were in contact with him. He helped people whenever he could by his going out to places they did not know, and in whatever way he could and wherever he was, there was laughter. Yes, that is one thing that I admire most in him. He made us all laugh.
Friends who are not in Sri Lanka - Amal's Bank Account no. is given below. I leave it to you to decide on what contribution you can make.
Amal Suranga Senerath Yapa - Bank of Ceylon Negombo Branch - 1409358
Friends who are in Sri Lanka - Amal's sister or father will be carrying his mobile - 077 3656748. He is at the General Hospital Neurology Intensive care Unit right now. Whoever can visit him or call him on my behalf, please do so. More than anything, please pray that God will give him the strenght to recover.
I don't know how I put all these words together. There's so much more that I have to say, but I just cannot go on.
Even if you cannot help him finanacially, please keep in your prayers.
Thank you so much for all your help.
God bless you
Renuka
Mobile 00971 50 8597880
Monday, September 10, 2007
Save the life of Gihani
Please help this girl (she is a 12yrs old Devian ) and she Is suffering from Lucamia (AML M4) she must undergo an allogenic bone marrow tranaplant. Her parents are strugling to collect Rs50,00,000 for her opperation.
Please make all your donations this account (1-0067-50-3285-7) NSB Kiribathgoda.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Donation Channel - Help this family
This lady is blind and has 4 children. Husband died from a disease. The eldest child,aged 11 foster others by begging. The house is a hut. The whole village is spread with malnutrition. They earned a living through collecting Aralu,Bulu,Nelli from Nilgala Herbal Park.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Appeal for Meals to the Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind
(LeN-2007Aug24, 5.00pm) This is a special appeal to you to consider giving a meal to the children of the Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind situated in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka.
This school has around 375 students at the moment and most of them are resident in the school hostel. Everything is provided free of charge to the students including all their meals.
The managment do not get enough meal donations and find it very difficult to provide a proper balanced diet to the children. Therefore they are appealing to everyone who receives this messege to kindly consider giving something towards feeding the impaired children. You could either donate money for a specific meal or give a donation to the Meals Account. Money from the Meals Account is used up to provide meals when they do not get any meal donations. So they need to keep the meals bank account topped up.
The managment aim is to find donors for all the meals they give the children everyday. Their meals calendar is not even half full and they hope they will get more donations when people receive this appeal.
Please forward this messege to many people as possible and don't forget to send their your contribution which will help to give more better meals to the impaired children. You could contact Mrs. Nilanthi Jinasena, Board Member in charge of Meals on nilanthi-rdc@sltnet.lk if you need more information.
source : LankaeNews
This school has around 375 students at the moment and most of them are resident in the school hostel. Everything is provided free of charge to the students including all their meals.
The managment do not get enough meal donations and find it very difficult to provide a proper balanced diet to the children. Therefore they are appealing to everyone who receives this messege to kindly consider giving something towards feeding the impaired children. You could either donate money for a specific meal or give a donation to the Meals Account. Money from the Meals Account is used up to provide meals when they do not get any meal donations. So they need to keep the meals bank account topped up.
The managment aim is to find donors for all the meals they give the children everyday. Their meals calendar is not even half full and they hope they will get more donations when people receive this appeal.
Please forward this messege to many people as possible and don't forget to send their your contribution which will help to give more better meals to the impaired children. You could contact Mrs. Nilanthi Jinasena, Board Member in charge of Meals on nilanthi-rdc@sltnet.lk if you need more information.
source : LankaeNews
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