Day 1: Everyone is feeling drained from the long haul flight and the 8hour car journey, but the team spirit is still high and people are settling in well to the Janoda Foundation Centre. Today we arrived at the airport hot and tired, we exchanged our pounds for Sri Lankan Rupees and hopped on the...Read More
At 6.30 we were up for the day. Team A (Reuden, Max, Harri, Amelia, Ellie and Grace) went and made vitamin balls to feed the elephants that morning. Afterwards we started work on the garden which they are hoping to grow plants in. We weeded and hoed the raised beds and cleaned them out for...Read More
Left Weydon pretty smoothly with few tears and drove to Heathrow T4 without issue, thank you to Mr Stewart, Mr Bundy, Mr Wish and Mrs Mason for parting with a few hours sleep for us. Long flights but great transfers got us all to Colombo without issue and all visas worked to let us in?...Read More
After awakening early to pack up and clear away we loaded our bags onto the trucks and said our goodbyes to Karu, Athula and the foundation building. We drove away heading to the Virgin Tea plantation near Galle for a colonial tea and tour of the plantation including tea tasting – very interesting! A very...Read More
So the end of the tcp is fast approaching and we have RAIN!! the projects are complete and after breakfast we hand over the playhouse, clay pot paths and mural to the pre-school before heading up to our final day with the buddies at Tzu Chi. Even in the rain the little children are delighted...Read More
This morning we woke up at 5:30am (as the birthday girl I woke up to “silly string” being sprayed over my tent). After having breakfast, we headed over to see a buffalo farm – we saw the buffalos being milked by a local farmer – and then visited a farm where the family showed us...Read More
Day 8 Instead of an nice Easter Sunday lie-in, we all woke up at 5am and promptly began to pack away our tents, ready to spend a night on the beautiful Sri Lankan coast. Once the bus was packed full of camping equipment, clothes and other miscellaneous stuff we probably didn’t need. We made our...Read More
Today was action packed from to start to finish. Beginning at 6am we woke and soon headed to the Tzu Chi National school in order to begin work on painting the mural of the two schools on their wall. After chatting with the buddies, a small group of students and buddies came back to the...Read More
Today we woke up early at around 5:45 to make our previously prepared rotis in the the mud hut at the end of the plot. They are a mixture of coconut and flour, like a thick pancake but more coconutty! After breakfast our buddies arrived, but this time it was a full moon day meaning...Read More
Today we had a later start of 6:30 and after a Watermelon filled breakfast we set about starting our various projects on the Janoda Site. These included a mural on the side of the pre-school, fixing and renovating a climbing frame as well as painting clay pots ready for a learning path made by the...Read More
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