Assist Resettlement & Renaissance புனர் வாழ்வும் புது வாழ்வும்

Assist RR has been funding an “After School Tuition” programme to assist GCE O/L & A/L students in Mullaithivu district since June 2013. Serendip part funded (Rs 100k per month for 5 months) and stopped funding since the end of last year. Tamil Forum Malaysia has now agreed to pay 50% of the cost of this programme from the beginning of this year. Hartley College Past Pupils’ Association of NSW, Australia contributes Rs 25,600 per month for one year towards the A/L tuitions in Mullaithivu Zone. Assist RR endeavour to fund the rest of the cost through our existing Standing Order donations and Money Box collections from shops in the UK but would still need more funds to run this. Assist RR believes that it should keep supporting these war affected students. Recent evaluation process indicates that the programme is helping the students. The results also show that they need more help and support especially in Chemistry & Physics. Following Assist RR’s appeal, Anbaalayam and Tamil Engineers Foundation, both charities from Australia have provided funds to import 450 solar powered lamps from China.  These lamps will be distributed to needy A/L students in remote areas of Thunukkai and villagers in Mullivaikal in April 2014.

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We hope you remember Alambil Pre-school in Mullaithivu that was re-built by Assist RR in Aug 2103.  At the re-opening ceremony, Assist RR was requested by the school administration for a well to be constructed as they were forced to fetch water from outside the school.  An Australian friend of Assist RR, who was present at the ceremony came forward and agreed to fund it himself.  It was decided to construct the well after the rainy season in order to reach the level that would ensure availability of water even in summer seasons.  A tube well has now been constructed and was made available for use on 24 March 2014. Teachers and children were very pleased that they have access to water inside the school premises with venturing out for water.  Your kind donations are certainly making changes to the lives of innocent victims of war in the East and North of Sri Lanka.  Please kindly continue to support our efforts, which would assist the unfortunate people back home.

Assist RR was approached by Mullaithivu GA, Mr Vethanayagan, with a request to construct wards at PTK hospital. Assist RR agreed and is currently constructing the ground floor of a 2-storey ward complex at a cost of around £26k. Assist RR is funding £16k and Serendip Children’s Home has agreed to donate £12k towards the ground floor. The project is progressing well and expected to be completed soon.  However, the ward needs some basic equipment such as beds, bed side lockers, trolleys, and many more items to furnish the ward. In addition, they also require medical equipment to assist effective functioning of the ward. Please consider donating funds to purchase these items, given in the link below.

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People, who were displaced by the war in Sampoor, Trincomalee in 2006, have not been resettled in their villages yet and are still living in refugee camps in Sampoor, where two primary schools are functioning in one premises and two displaced pre-schools are functioning as one in the Hostel of Seniyur Central College.  These schools are functioning without basic facilities, such as decent desks, chairs, teaching aids, laboratory and library facilities. All the students of these schools are coming from the refugee camps around Seniyur. Another school in Koonithivu, Sampoor is lacking space and conducting classes where ever they find spaces. These schools desperately need assistance such as a building and furniture. Assist RR recently donated furniture to the pre-school and five bicycles to needy GCE O/L & A/L students from remote villages of Trincomalee district using funds donated by an anonymous donor from Hong Kong and Rotary Club of Edgbaston, UK.

      
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Assist RR was approached by Mullaithivu GA, Mr Vethanayagan, with a request to fund construction of male & female wards at PTK hospital. The GA has been trying to get funding through other sources but, as he failed to do so, he approached Assist RR for assistance to build at least one ward. Assist RR agreed and has been raising funds. Although it was estimated that the cost would be around £31k for the 24-bed ground floor ward, we are now confident that it would be completed at a cost of around £26k. Serendip Children’s Home has agreed to donate £12k towards the ground floor and Assist RR is funding £16k. The foundation was laid on 05 Nov 2013 and the project has been progressing well.

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There is another good news that we would like to share with you.  Following our visit to two remote villages in Wellaveli, Batticaloa in January 2014, we made an appeal to assist these villagers in a number of ways.  Further to this appeal, Dr Namasivayam of Sivanarulillam approached Annai Aathiparasakthi Valipaddu Mandram in Harrow, UK and appealed them to consider donating 15 bicycles to the children from the two remote villages called 16th Colony and Maalayarkaddu.  They responded positively and arranged the donations through Kathankudi Aathiparasakthi Valipaddu Mandram on 03 March 2014.  We would like to thank Annai Aathiparasakthi Valipaddu Mandram in Harrow, UK for agreeing to donate at a short notice and for donating these bicycles to the children, who were walking up to 13 kMs one way to attend their schools. We also would like to thank Dr Namasivayam for approaching the donors and making this happen.  This would certainly assist these children’s learning to some extent. But we can do more by providing evening classes in their villages. Please remember there are no A/L students and only 3 O/L students in these villages.

Assist RR is happy to inform you that, with the assistance of Vision 2020, we have successfully organised yet another cataract surgery camp, this time in Batticaloa, this weekend to help nearly 100 patients.  This camp was funded by “SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANISATION”, BATTICALOA AND “FUND FOR MAHALIRILLAM”, AUSTRALIA. Dr Dias Jeyasiri has been carrying out these surgeries all day along. Please note that Dr Dias carried out another nearly 50 surgeries yesterday, funded by two voluntary organisations from Sydney, Australia (one of them  is called “Regain Sight Inc”). We should all thank Dr Dias for his selfless and tireless service to the needy in the East and North of Sri Lanka. This is the fourth camp organised by Assist RR, restoring vision to nearly 400 patients, in partnership with Vision 2020 and Dr Dias.  Our sincere gratitude and appreciation to Dr Dias for his selfless service to the people of the East and North of SL and to Vision 2020 for organising these camps and their support. 

       

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