CBB’s English Language Teaching Project receives donation
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Ranil Samarawickrema, President - Colombo Cinnamon Round table 4
handing over the cheque to Nick Nicolaou, Chairman - CBB.
Chandana Aluthgama, President - Round Table Sri Lanka looks on
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The Council for Business with Britain’s (CBB) English Language
Teaching Project received Rs. 250,000 from Ranil Samarawickrema,
President - Colombo Cinnamon Round Table 4 and National Secretary of
Round Table Sri Lanka.
The cheque was handed over to Nick Nicolaou, Chairman of the Council
for Business with Britain at a breakfast meeting organized by the CBB
recently. Round Table Sri Lanka President, Chandana Aluthgama was also
present at the event.
Since 2005 the CBB has been working through the British Council to
deliver its successful and well regarded English Language Teaching
project. This is being conducted with the approval of the Higher
Education Ministry and has been built up over a number of years. The
programme is now well in to its sixth year. The overall goal of the
programme is to upgrade the English skills of pupils, mainly in rural
schools, and this is achieved through improving the quality of the
teaching of English in their schools.
Round Table is a group of likeminded friends trying to help the local
community, especially children. Round Table was born with the motto
‘Adopt, Adapt, Improve’ and from small beginnings of one club in
Norwich, UK it now boasts over 32,000 members in 52 countries. Round
Table – Sri Lanka consists of four tables and Colombo Cinnamon Round
table 4 is headed by Ranil Samarawickrema.
With this generous donation, Colombo Cinnamon Round Table 4 joins
with CBB to sponsor 10 teachers in CBB’s ELT project 5th phase in
2012-2013, fulfilling its objective of helping children in Sri Lanka. |
