Nihiluwa Evillage on Sirasa TV news

Equipments from Secondary Education Modernization Project

A laptop and the Multi-Media projector have been donated by the Secondary Education Modernization Project of the Ministry of Education.To strength Evillage duties SEMP has took this step.We appreciated this donations.

Facts finding mission by Kothalawalapura School,Rathmalana.

A group of students from Kothalawalapura School led by their Principal and the computer unit Teachers visited us on 30 th June to observe our village project. Their school has been chosen to implement the Evillage concept by the Secondary Education Modernization Project in the Ministry of Education. So that they want to examine  our project. They arrived to our school at about 9 am. Our students and the Principal welcomed them.

Help These Rural Sri Lankan Students

During past Three years students of Nihiluwa Public School has proved that they acquired maximum usage of the given computer lab in 2005.You can witness it through our web sites

www.nihiluwamv.sch.lk

www.ruhunulanka.org

We initiated the program to increase ICT ability among students and the school leavers. We trained nearly 300 students using this lab.We are the only one school in Tangalle Educational Zone to having a daily updating web site.Now we have to find the funds for our electricity bills. Past years it have been paid by the Secondary Education Modernization Project .Now we want these students to keep their works continue.Kind Donors can help us to pay our electricity bills.Pleas feel free to send an email to

info@ruhunulanka.org

 

Donation from UK

 

 

Mr Bandula ,a web master of Sesatha.com in UK has donated 8000 LKR for Ruhunu Lanka.We decided to spend this money for scanner.
We appreciated his kind donation for our rural kids. These donations ensure our commitment  to the project.

D.A.Rajapaksha Sports Complex -Beliatta.

D.A.Rajapaksha Sports Complex at the Beliatt has been renewed upto the Internetional level.Now Athletes from rural area can experiance the modern facility and use this ground for their practises. This year National Athletic meet has been sheduled to hold in this ground. A swimming pool also has been constructed just closer to the Beliatta Technical Collage.

 

 

Telemedicine in India.

 

 Baramthi in India we got a chance to examine different kind of method using in Government Hospital.Using Internet connection they send ECG report to nearest specialist and get feed back within short time of period. This method is very useful for India because of its vast size.

 

Why Sri Lankan Three wheelers decorated more.

During our visit to India it was amazing for us about Indian Three wheelers. They are remarkably differing from our country.  In Maharashta state we noticed that only two colors can be used for them. We felt that common color used for Three wheelers.Upper part  yellow and lower part black colors. No any stickers, antennas, sound setup, modification or even carpets. Only three passengers can travel at a time. But in Sri Lanka people are spending considerable amount of money for modification of the Three wheelers.Some three wheelers are just like a mobile record bar

Indian drivers are not wasting money for these unusable things.

 

One computer starts many changes

By Amal Gunawardana Founder Ruhunu Lanka Foundation

In October 2003, my Principal informed me that our students couldn’t afford the report book which included all their exams results. He proposed that we try to provide cheaper ones using a computer and the old duplicating machine we already had.

At that time I was only able to create simple word documents and get a single printout. Even that was a huge challenge for me. I had spent a week to learning how to use Windows media player. Since every report book has its own format it was difficult to design because I didn’t know how to apply a border, insert a picture, insert a table etc.

Again I got help from our Library. After a few days I figured out how to format a page for our own design. Then I designed a cover page, but I forgot to include the school logo. This again was a big problem for me because I didn’t know how to insert our school logo to the cover page. I asked a few people and I found that first, the logo must be scanned and copied to PC. But I still couldn’t get it right. I thought it was a complex task. How do I do this?

Then I met someone from a private computer institute In Tangalle city with a school letterhead and told them about my requirements.  They taught me how to do it exactly   . In addition to that I also learnt a bit about Photo editing tools and removable media such as floppy diskettes.

After a few days I started to design the report book. Mr.Jayasekara, a teacher in my school also helped me use the old duplicating machine. Finally we were able to complete our principal’s proposal. He was more satisfied than I expected. This Report Book can now be bought outside the school for 25 Rupees. However students can buy it at 5 Rupees.

My report book project created a new trend was in my school. I imposed a rule that every teacher must design their exam papers using our computer. This resulted in a big queue to use our single computer.

Then I launched my next idea - teaching students using a single computer. It is not an easy task. I got a big room reserved for the proposed computer lab. Then I set up the one and only computer inside the room and started lessons. Every class has 30 students. But I only had to manage like this until 24 November 2004. That day our dreams came true! A complete computer unit was given to our school through the Secondary Education Modernization Project (SEMP).

This was a new challenge for me. At the beginning I was informed that the SEMP will provide only two years of maintenance (electricity and repairs) for this lab. I like challenges and I made a sustainable plan for computer unit which is currently in progress. See the results of our efforts at www.ruhunulanka.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participation on Baramathi Initiatives

Mr Amal Gunawardhana a Founder of Ruhunu Lanka has been invited to participate to 8^Th Annaul Baramathi Initiative on ICT and Development in Pune India from 22  to 26 March at the Vidya Pratistan Institute of Information Technology Intellectuals from the Asia pacific also have been invited.