326. School Holy Trinity Maha Vidyalaya (Central Province)

A poor and rural school with 510 children grade 6 – 13 from poor families and 34 teachers use the new facilities.
School is situated in top of a mountain in Pussellawa village between Kandy Nuwaraeliya main roads in Kandy District in Central Province. Villagers who are living here is very poor, and some parents of the children working as daily labours in tea states and some others working as daily labours in the Pussellawa town. Throughout the year they are struggling for water because the community water line is not pressure enough to pump up to school.
Realized, water and sanitation facilities:
Supply 10.000L water stock tank and 2.000L water tank, construct 3 low concrete stands with hand rails, supply total pipeline system to school and school premises and existing school buildings and existing toilets, construction of pump house electrical panel board, construction of 5 hand washing units (1unit has 4 taps), construction 3 tap posts, from the main stock tank pump water up to the 2.000L water tank which is in highest place (200 meters long) in the school premises and from there we distribute the water to entire school (school situated in 5 different land levels) and painting all constructions .

Parents, teachers and children gave their help to bring materials to construction site.

We had to spend more money than we estimated because,

  • We did estimate on end of the year 2018 for the project and we could not finished the project within the deadline due to Easter attack in year 2019, and landslides due to the heavy rain in middle of the year 2019 and also the COVID 19 pandemic. And by the year 2020/2022 the prices of every material increased more than 75%.
  • We had to construct 3 low concrete stands, 3 hand washing units and 3 tap posts in addition to the estimate. (Because of COVID 19 school needed more washing units for hand washing).
  • We had to pay 2 weeks salary for the field staff because of the lockdown situation they could not go out (home) from the project field.

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