Sri Lanka: Tricomalee

From Sri Lanka Album

What an eventful day!

The team awoke early ready to set off at 6 a.m. for Tricomalee, a six-hour journey to the most remote village on this beautiful island.

Upon arrival we were told that instead of handing out 450 bedkits we distributed a whopping 728 bedkits!

We were presented this morning with name tags from the Rotarians. They kindly translated our names phonetically in Singhalese and Tamil.

From Sri Lanka Album

This year the Sri Lankan Rotarians worked extremely hard in putting the bedkits together. Based on last year's interviews, they were able to fulfill the parents requests and provide the students with hard-soled shoes. The quality of the bedkits is superb! The parents and the children interviewed could not believe they were receiving so many much needed items after going without due to the civil war.

Lynette Jenkins
for Team Sri Lanka 2012

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