Education
Vocational Training Centre in Thirukkovil
This centre will provide young people and adults the opportunity to develop skills then to go on and get a job or start up there own business to assist them in rebuilding their livelihoods. The aim is to provide an equivalent of the NVQ inTractor / Carpentry / Bicycle / Motorbikes / TV & Radio repair/maintenance workshops, Masonry & block making centre and Sewing / tailoring ladies & gents classes and a bakery.
Benefiting
Those who have no access to education from a certain age, those that live in remote areas of abject poverty and too far for them to travel daily or that cannot afford education due to the need to earn money for their family as a main breadwinner – by providing skills, bursaries, accommodation by way of a students dormitory with expense.Requirements:
Building of each workshopOperation costs
Teachers salary
Student expenses
Equipment and materials
Students residential dormitory
Utilities for the centre
Total cost £148,146.03
Study Hall in Thirukkovil
There is an existing semipermanent study hall for children's education that is just a shell with nopermanent roof. This has to be completely renovated and partially rebuilt. It will then be used for the theory classes for the vocational subjects and for tuition classes in English for youths and adults.We have also been asked to provide evening classes in English, Maths, Science, and SocialStudies for grades 69pupils.Furniture / cupboards etc. £282.86
50 Desks (£14.46 each desk) £722.86
50 Chairs (£14.46 each desk) £722.86
Text books etc £314.29
Pupils stationary £471.43
Operating costs £188.521
Teachers salary £1,206.86
Computer Centre in Thirukkovil
Requirements:
15 Chairs (£31.43 each) £471.4315 Desks (£12.57 each) £188.57
15 computers £4,148.57
1 inkjet printer £150.86
1 laser printer £150.86
1 scanner/photocopier £1,131.43
2 teachers salaries 5 yrs (£1518/yr) £7,590.00
Operating costs 5 yrs(£120.69/yr) £603.43
Tractor Centre
Requirements:
Tractor maintenance/repair building £10,140.95Engineering Lathe £4,871.43
Instructor 5 years salary (£1169.14/yr) £5,845.71
Student refreshments 5 yrs (£407.31/yr) £2,036.50
Bicycle repair and maintenance
Bicycles are the main means of transport and their owners need to know how to maintain and repair them; this requires a workshop.Requirement:
Building 4978.291 teacher 5 yrs (£1169.14/yr) £5,845.71
8 student expenses 5 yrs (£2112/yr) £10,560.00
Motor cycle workshop
Older youth and adults graduate to motor bikes when they can afford them so there is a similar need to teach them how to maintain and repair them.Requirement:
Building £4,978.29Tools & Equipment £1,162.86
Instructor 5 yrs (£754.29/1yr) £3,771.43
8 student expenses 5yrs (£2,112/1yr) £10,560.00
Masonry and Block-making workshop
The block making workshop gives employment and skills training and provides ourselves and other organisations with blocks which are of uniform quality, used for current rebuilding programmes. This is a fundamental need in this community.Requirement:
Finishing and equipping the building £25,595.431 teacher 5 yrs (£1169.14 /1yr) £5,845.71
Storage shed £1,634.29
TV & Radio workshop
The current workshop shell needs finishing with shelves and storage space and a proper work bench. The requirement is for five student’s expenses for five years? these are living expenses paid to students from homes of abject poverty so that their families can subsist whilst they are not earning the money which keeps the family together.Requirement:
Instructor 5 yrs (£754.86/1yr) £3,771.435 student expenses 5 yrs (£1414.29/1yr) £7,071.43
Sewing & Tailoring workshop
The first class graduated after 6 months training. They were divided into groups of 3 or 4 and each group was given a commercial standard sewing machine to go and set up theirown small business. Some of the groups have started to do very well. A new batch of students has already begun training, in the confidence that support for this project will
materialise.
Requirement:
Building costs £10,140.952 instructors 5 yrs (£1,508.57/1yr) £7,542.86
Carpentry workshop
Carpentry and furniture making are an essential part of rebuilding livelihoods and we need to set up a workshop to teach this skill.Requirement:
Building (cost to be advised)1 instructor 5 yrs (754.86/1yr) £3,771.43
Materials £2,074.29
Bakery (shop, office and storage)
There is no bakery in the village. Bread is transported from the larger cities (packaged bread) This opportunity would give at least 12 people experience in bread and cake making and employment for up to 12 people during training and afterwards, which could result in them being able to set up their own business.Requirement:
Building £16,971.43Oven, furniture & uniforms £29,857.14
Utensils £471.43
Student expenses 5 yrs (£3168/1yr) £15,840.00
Instructors salary 5 yrs (£754.29/1yr) £3,771.43
Children’s Daycare Centre, Palakkudah Village
Palakkudah is a village 3 miles from Thirukkovil. There are about 40+ children in the day-care centre at present, but the building was only built to accommodate 20 children. There is a pressing need to expand this building which is a vital part of their young lives and community.Requirement:
Day care / nursery extension £30,800.00Skills Training and Community Centre, Kallar village
Kallar is a village near Batticaloa. The project will provide skills training and a community centre teaching sewing, pottery, crafts and some electronic repairing. There will also be trauma and general counselling for adults and young people.Requirement:
Skills training centre & community hall £29,542.86Peace and Justice Centre, Batticaloa
For multi-ethnic, multi-religious seminars, discussions, and residential weekends. This project is the brain child, and has the enthusiastic support, of the present of the principal of Batticaloa Central College which William Ault founded (1816) with 5 children in the 8 months he lived there before succumbing disease and exhaustion. Purchase and restoration of this historic building. Specifically for Batticaloa cultural and religious communities to focus that latent goodwill and cooperation established by Ault nearly 200 hundred years ago, and celebrated in the recently erected statue opposite this building where he is buried.Requirement:
Student’s Justice & Peace Centre restoration £31,428.57Return to the
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This
is a shell of a study hall which we
need to complete and furnish. At present it
is used for all the theory connected with
the vocational training, and some tuition
classes and English classes.
A
tractor theory class is being conducted without privacy or proper facilities.
This study centre needs to be finished and furnished.
At
present the computer centre in Thirukkovil has already put more than 400
students through its class and has a present enrolment of 140 people. It
is currently located in a guest room in the boy’s home.
The
computer centre currently under construction which will accommodate a computer
lab of 15 work stations with a scanner, printer and internet access.
This is a view from the front of the computer building waiting to be equipped.
Students working on dismantling and rebuilding an old tractor.
The
rebuilt tractor at work transporting materials for the centre.
The
girls attending sewing classes are given bicycles so they could attend
classes.
Blocks
made in the Masonry and Block-making workshop, being used to build a TV
and Radio workshop.
The TV and Radio workshop needs finishing with shelves and
storage space and a proper work bench.
the
instructor of the sewing class
still lives in a refugee camp for those who lost
homes in the tsunami.
Children
in the day-care centre having
a cup of tea after their break.
There are twice as many on the waiting list as we
have enrolled already, which is why we need to extend the
premises.