In addition to our housing project, Cesvi completed the
rehabilitation of a school in a village called Kinniya, located about 30 mins southeast of Trinco town. The actual project has been completed for some time but they just now had the opening ceremony to coincide with several openings of other projects funded by the Italian government. Although I didnt provided any significant assistance to this project, it was fun to attend and it gave me some hope that one day, our housing project will be finished as well.
Ten of us piled into our van for the trip down there. It felt like the Cesvi Family road trip!
Only the youngest get to dress up like this, the older girls all wear the white shall as this is a Muslim girls school.
Some local big-wigs and the Italian Ambassador. The played the Sri Lankan national anthem as well as the Italian anthem.
The cer(E)mony consisted of a series of speeches and musical performances by the children and was only 40 mins or so, which is short for project openings. They often last about 4 hours. So I felt quite lucky.
All the children were quiet and well behaved during the ceremony, on the other hand, every male in the room continuously talked amongst themselves no matter who was speaking at the podium - including the Italian Ambassador
Ten of us piled into our van for the trip down there. It felt like the Cesvi Family road trip!
Only the youngest get to dress up like this, the older girls all wear the white shall as this is a Muslim girls school.
Some local big-wigs and the Italian Ambassador. The played the Sri Lankan national anthem as well as the Italian anthem.
The cer(E)mony consisted of a series of speeches and musical performances by the children and was only 40 mins or so, which is short for project openings. They often last about 4 hours. So I felt quite lucky.
All the children were quiet and well behaved during the ceremony, on the other hand, every male in the room continuously talked amongst themselves no matter who was speaking at the podium - including the Italian Ambassador
1 comment:
hi
You guys really helped this village to recover from TSunami and improved it a lot.
In my recent, I felt the difference.
Are you still in Kinniya?
Good work. Keep it up
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