2022 Successes

Kandy Tedeniya – Donations £4,558 (for two projects)

Both primary schools are situated in the Kandy district. As per the latest poverty index, Kandy district remains in 17th position in the Poverty Headcount Index amongst the 25 identified districts in Sri Lanka. The school names are Dumbara Adarsha Primary School and Mahinda Adarsha Primary School. SLCF partnered this digital initiative with Tech For Kids coding program providers to encourage future generations to be equipped with the right skills and requirements to be programmers.

The key objective is to bridge the digital disparity between the developed and the developing cities in Sri Lanka.

These centres will benefit about 500 primary children annually. TechKids Certification Curriculum engages industry resources to review the TechKids syllabus and provide continuous updates to the TechKids Certification Curriculum. Provide curriculum content for Scratch, Microbit, HTML and CSS, Python, cyber security, IoT, etc.

We purchased a range of hardware so that the children in these two schools could access online material and online courses. The material we purchased was: Desk computers (x10), keyboards (x10), with WIFI connectivity, Multimedia Projectors (x2), Printers (X2) We only made this capital contribution with local volunteers to support both centres by cleaning them, installing computers, and ensuring their ongoing functioning.

This will enable the spread of the benefits of the worldwide demand for technically competent people beyond Colombo. It will aid primary school student’s digital learning and minimise digital gaps in education, and business. These two centres will ensure access to online study materials and syllabi and support the students with their scholarship exams in Grade 5 coding skills to equip them for the future. Hence SLCF sponsored this initiative to invest in the present generation to proposer in future.