Danishka's Diary

A large number of students in Sri Lanka became victims of the recent floods and land slides as a result of non-stop rain in May. Some of the students lost not only their study notes, but also their uniforms and shoes. Our initial attempt was to support them with the study notes, but it seemed that most of the individuals and organizations spend their invaluable time, labor and money to supply the students in need with study notes. So we at Akura decided to shift our focus to supply the students with school uniforms among other necessities. Although the government pledged to give uniform textiles, these students were still required to buy other necessaries such as shoes, socks and undergarments. Our first attempt:   After the floods subsided, students of Biyagama Central College returned to school in casual clothes. Akura arranged transport for all the students in casual clothing (a total of 63) to visit to Thilakawardhana Textile in Kiribathgoda Kiribat...

As I mentioned earlier , we are trying to provide a computer lab with 5 computers and other necessary equipments to Sagalapura College , Bingathalawa, Kandapola which is a rural college in Walapane education zone in Nuwara Eliya district, Our target is to provide them with 5 new assembled computers. Mr. Athula Herath who is attached to the Education Office, Central province says that a computer with the following specification can be bought to a price of Rs. 52,000 from an institute in Kandy. Core i3 Processor 2GB RAM 500GB HDD LED Display Keyboard/Mouse (without UPS) Since this is a rural college, we thought of transportation as well. If there is anyone who can help us buy computers with quality components for a lower price, please contact Mr. Athula Herath. The estimated least total cost for 5 computers is Rs. 260,000 and a total of Rs. 40,000 from four people (Rs. 10,000 from each) is confirmed to be donated. If it is possible for you t...

පසුගිය කාලයේ රටවටේ විවිධ වැඩසටහන් සඳහා එක් වුවත් ඊයේ පෙරෙදා උන සිදු වීම නම් ලියන්නම ඔන කියල හිතුනා. කණ්ඩියපිටවැව, නාලන්දා පාසලට පසුගිය ජූලි 19 දින ගියේ මීට පෙර කිසි දිනෙක නොදුට පිරිසක් සමඟ.. උදේ පාන්දර 3.30ට පමණ ගෙදරින් පිටත්වෙලා, වල් අලි කරදර වලින් දුක්විදින ජනතාවගෙ ජීවන තත්ත්වය උසස් කිරීමට සහාය වන Born Free Foundation ආයතනයේ මිතුරන් සමඟ   කොළඹදි එක් විමෙන් අනතුරුව බලංගොඩ තණමල්විම මාර්ගයේ ගමන් කරන කොට හම්බවෙන හම්බේගමුව ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යයාලයට අයත් ප්‍රදේශයට අපි ලගා උනේ දවල් 1ත් පහුවෙද්දි. අපි යද්දි පාසල් වාර විභාගය ලියමින් සිටි ලමයි ගෙදර යන්න කලින් වදිනව.. එවගේම පොඩි පැංචො ටිකක් නම් ඒ වෙද්දිත් අපි එන අතරමග... පාසලට ඇතුල් වන විටම ලැබුණු සිනා සංග්‍රහය මේ වෙද්දි පරිගණක විද්‍යාගාරය (මෙය මුලින් ගොඩනගල තියෙන්නෙ පුස්තකාලයකට) විදුලිය ලබා දි තිබුනෙ නැ, එවගේම අවශ්‍ය අභ්‍යන්තර රැහැන් ඇදීමක්ද තිබුනෙ නැ.  පෙරෙදා පාසලෙ තිබුණු උත්සවේකදි කියවුනෙ ඒ ගොඩනැගිල්ලට ආණ්ඩුවෙන් 50,000ක මුදලක් ලැබුනත් ඉස්කොලෙ ලොකු සර්, ගුරුවරු, පාසල් ලමුන් සහ ගම්මු එකතු...

Project 1: Sagalapura College, Biganthalawa, Kadapola Walapane Education Zone, Central Province This was meant to be our maiden School lab and we promised them to provide new computers. This project can be initiated as soon as the computers are available. College has enough room for a laboratory and local politician have promised to provide the electricity supply. Summary: 5 Computers required to initiate the project. Note: 5 new computers are urgently needed. Coordinator: Athula Herath 0718-217443 Project 2: Malalgoda Siri Seewalee Primary College, Ahangama (Galle Education Zone) Currently operational with one computer. There is a possibility to add three more computers after Sinhala Tamil New Year. Note: Group of Officers of Asian Development Bank and Provincial Education Office inspected the school on March 21, 2012 Other Requirements: Need equipment for Electrical wiring and Computer networking Coordinator : Bandula Pushpakumara 0716-146331 Project 3: Dekat...

Latest release of Hanthana Linux (Gagana – 14.5) was introduced to the public at the educational exhibition conducted to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Southlands College, Galle. Students of the IT unit of the college successfully carried out the stall and had delivered more than 300 DVDs free of charge among the visitors. Students, employees from both government and private sector, foreigners were among the visitors. It is notable that Mr. Helmer, one of the Dutch visited the stall the very first day, stated that he will ship 8 computers with Hanthana Linux installed to a school in Sri Lanka. The ten presenters (college girls) at the stall who had no prior experience with Hanthan Linux were armed with the required knowledge in a one day workshop conducted by the Hanthana Linux team. It should be mentioned that they did their best to spread the word of freedom among the visitors. A school making the public aware of Free and Open Source Software and Hanthana Linu...