District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education

John Thompson, International Chairman, reports that we have met a request from the Pare family of Oswestry to support their project in Sri Lanka to fund a school for disadvantaged children and young people of workers employed on the tea plantations.

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - A class at Pedro Tea Estate (none of the children have books

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - A remote village where 84 children turned up an hour early for 40 places, we took all of them!

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - Teacher Training Sessions

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - The Children are really happy with the lessons and being remembered.

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - The School Building.

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - Welimada Young Offenders Institute where the Government provides no education and some of the children are here for stealing.

District Matching Grant Helps The Tea Leaf Project Provide Opportunities Through Education - Tim Pare with 2 members of the Interact group during a visit to make a presentation October 2008

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John Thompson, International Chairman, reports that we have met a request from the Pare family of Oswestry to support their project in Sri Lanka to fund a school for disadvantaged children and young people of workers employed on the tea plantations.

Following his presentation in November of a talk prepared by Rotarian Tim Pare of the Nuwara Eliya Rotary Club, District 3220, Oswestry Club donated

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