KOICA helps improvement of Primary Education in Sri Lanka

An opening ceremony for the project of remolding of Bambarakele Tamil School in Nuwara Eliya was held recently with presence of Korean Ambassador, Choi Jong-Moon, Principal of Bambarakele Tamil School,KOICA Sri Lanka office representative, Komathy, staff and volunteers, Korean media team, engineers of Keangnam Construction Company, members of Nuwara Eliya Municipal Council and Zonal Education Office, and other local residents.This school remodeling project has been conducted as part of TV programme titled as ‘Dream of KOICA’, jointly funded by KOICA and Munhwa Broadcasting Cooperation (MBC), one of a major media company in Korea.

The TV programme aims not only to shed a light on the KOICA overseas volunteerism and international development cooperation to Sri Lanka but to introduce Sri Lanka’s culture and attractions to the Korean public.

Under this small-scale project, KOICA not only remodeled two main classrooms, a play ground and other school facilities but also provided new school furniture such as desks, chairs and cabinets, blackboards for school and presented back packs for all school children in order to equip the school with better education facilities and enable better education services for the students.

Along with this project, to support the improvement of Sri Lanka primary and secondary education, KOICA is carrying out school reconstruction projects, one in Kilinochchi district with $ 5 million budget scale, and the other in Ampara and Batticaloa districts with $ 2 million budget scale.