Mihiripenna School rebuilt and refurbished

Work has now been completed at a fourth school in the Galle District. Mihiripenna School was used as a Tsunami camp for several months and has taken on many children whose schools were destroyed by the Tsunami. It was in desperate need of additional classrooms and existing facilities needed to be adapted to accomodate this.

Mihiripenna School is about 10 km from Galle and now has over 320 children. It is an old school, originally built in 1889. The numbers have gone up 45% since the Tsunami as Mihiripenna has taken in children form other schools destroyed by the Tsunami. The school offers children schooling from Grade 1-10. Twelve students lost a parent in the Tsunami and many others lost their homes and family income. Many of the families are dependant on fishing and casual labour.

Senahasa has completed an extensive programme of work to upgrade the facilities at Mihiripenna School. A new two-storey 90' x 25' building houses 4 classrooms and an assembly hall. A class hall has beeb partitioned to create four distinct classrooms and the other old buildings have been refurbished. The grounds used to get water-logged during the monsoon rains and so work was done to to level them, put in drainage and tar some areas. New toilet facilities were also built..

Senahasa Trust continues to complete projects and progress major building work in Sri Lanka

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