Gavinash with some students of Horizon Lanka at Tantirimale

“If you are interested in volunteering here then waste no time! Horizon Lanka is in need of manpower, people with skills of many kinds to help build it back up to its former glory. The students here are eager to improve their English and computer skills but they love to play sports and learn about practically anything! Living in this village is amazing, you will be greeted with friendly smiles everywhere you go, there’s no shortage of helpful hands and the food is fantastic.

There’s lots of work to be done but in Sri Lanka people always make time to just enjoy life and talk to each other so you can be sure to make many good friends and learn about the truly unique values of this beautiful country.” – Gavinash Sirisena, the United Kingdom

You can download the PDF version of this newsletter at http://www.horizonlanka.org/newsletters/2009/april/2_april_2009_small.pdf

Horizon Lanka Foundation secured a grant to provide Internet access to the village of Mahavilachchiya using mesh technology. The preliminary work has already begun and the project will be completed within coming weeks.
In 2006 also Horizon Lanka provided internet access to the Mahavilachchiya village through mesh technology by providing Internet access to 30 users. That covered 1/4th of the geographical area of the village and this time around the network will be extended to rest of the village as well.
More details of the project will be made available through Horizon Lanka website www.horizonlanka.org as and when they are available. (Due credits to the relevant parties who support us will be attributed in our next newsletter once the project is completed.)
We expect you will help us by providing new or used PCs and laptops to us so that we can distribute them among the children of Mahavilachchiya, public schools, dhamma schools, community centers, etc. so that more people from the village could use Internet productively.
We hope to provide Internet access to more than 100 users through this project. There are already more than 50 PCs available in the village and we need your support to provide more PCs to the villagers.
Please contact us. Email: info@horizonlanka.org Mobile: 077-7702678 (Local) / 0094-77-7702678 (IDD)

Mr. Sarath Kumara, a Sri Lankan Product Development Chemist from Sydney, Australia visited Horizon Lanka on February 8, 2009 with his family and relatives. This is his third visit to Horizon Lanka. http://www.horizonlanka.org/news/2009/sarath_kumara/index.html

Mr. Sarath is an admirer of Horizon Lanka since 2002 ever since he learnt about Horizon Lanka from the net.
He spent the whole morning in Horizon Lanka and talked to the students and the staff. They left Mahavilachchiya after lunch.

Apart from financial help, Mr Sarath has been guiding Horizon Lanka’s students, parents and the staff in spiritual development as well in a big way.

Click here to read his report about Horizon Lanka and Mahavilachchiya which he wrote after visiting Horizon last time http://mahavilachchiya.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/looking-back-five-years-to-horizon-lanka-sarath-kumara-sydney-australia/

In this video, Shalinda Isuru talks about himself and his education at Horizon Lanka.

In this video, Prarthana Sewwandi talks about her education at Horizon Lanka Academy. (Sinhala)

In this video, Krishan Devinda talks about education at Horizon Lanka, Mahavilachchiya.

In this video, Gihan Bandara of Horizon Lanka Academy talks about himself and the education at Horizon Lanka Academy. Gihan studies at Grade 9. (Sinhala)

In this video clip, Nadeera Anushka Wickramasinghe talks about her ambitions.

In this video clip, Chathurika Udayangani talks about her ambitions.