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Vishnu school reconstruction project

Posted on 15 September 2006 by S4K

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Tags: Children, Civilwar, Help, Sri Lanka, support, war

Children without hope in Sri Lanka

Posted on 14 August 2006 by S4K

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This article is a follow up on an article which was commented by Ceo and founder U.K. Sivanathan on the 27th April this year. Then it was reported on BBC sources that there were 40.000 people were on flee from their homes with their children on their hands to seek for security. Other facts were that the humanity organizations were calling their staff back home from the critical areas.

Current date of 14th of August 2006 according to the Dutch sources (ad.nl) and International source (bbc.co.uk) a very shocking news came from through the channels of LTTE to the international media. After 4 years in peace now 63 school children died due to a bombing of the government soldiers. Please read the article at bbc.co.uk for more details.

15th of August
UNICEF representative Joanna van Gerten went to visit the place of bombarment in Mullaitheevu district and confirmed that it was 61 school children who were the victims of this air strike and she was devasted by the range of bloody and mental¬† damage it has caused the district people.

Once again what we can conclude from this situation is that children are dieing in Sri Lanka due to the war, before this war, they got orphaned through the natural disaster Tsunami and even before that the children were the true victims of civil war in Sri Lanka.

We, at Siva for Kids Foundation are awaiting for a peaceful solution for both parties so that we as NGO can go on with our unfinished work in the northern pennsylvania of Sri Lanka as soon possible. We hope that the international committees finally see the facts that we would not be able to fight poverty in any third world countries if we keep awaiting for the war to stop by itself.

The Ceo and founder, U.K. Sivanathan, hope that international peace interested organizations and countries step out and find a peaceful solution before more children dies due to the civil war in Sri Lanka.

Thank you for your attention.

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Tags: Kalmunari, LIBRARY4KIDS, Sri Lanka, Vishnu School

BUDGET – Library of Vishnu School, Kalmunai, Sri Lanka

Posted on 07 August 2006 by S4K

Budget of the Project Vishnu School are not the only of this project¬†but also the furnishing part where S4K still busy with fundraising to finalize the complete a succesful project with international co-operation beyond races, cultures and borders. A true example of how help can be provided and goals can be achieved with good understanding and communication.

For this purpose we have to provide the following materials and equipments.

Items For Library	Size	Quantity	Unit cost in LKR	Cost in LKR
Furniture‚Äôs 1. Wall cupboard with steel fittings With Glass doors 2. Chairs 3. Tables 4. Steel Cupboard 5. Paper reading table 6. Librarian table and chair 7. Television Rack 8. File cupboard	20‚Äô 15‚ÄôX 5‚Äô	03 50 02 04 01 01 set 01 03	15,000 500 7,500 5000 10,000 7,650 5,350 4,000	45,000 25,000 15,000 20,000 10,000 7,650 5,350 12,000
Book‚Äôs 1. Primary ¬†, Higher education and Information technology books				210,000
Electronic Items 1. Television 2. Radio 3. Fan 4. Air-Conditioner split type		01 01 04 02	27,000 5,000 4,000 76,000	27,000 5,000 16,000 152,000
Water filter		02		6,000
Curtain for windows		30 M		8,000
Total cost				564,000

Items for Computer room	Size	Quantity	Unit cost in LKR	Cost in LKR
1. Air-Conditioner		02	76,000	152,000
2. Curtain for windows		30 M		8,000
3.¬†Tiles/Cement for floor	25‚Äô X 20‚Äô			95,000
4. Grill for windows	4‚ÄôX4‚Äô	04	1,500	6,000
Total cost				261,000

Budgeted Amount:
For the total project it will cost nearly LKR 825,000.00.

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Tags: Children, Civil War, Help, peace, Redcross, Sri Lanka, UN, war

Children running away from Civil War in Sri Lanka

Posted on 27 April 2006 by S4K

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As today the situation got very critical on the tsunami affected islands of Sri Lanka. 40.000 people (source:bbc 1.23am) are on flee from their homes with their children on their hands to seek for security. A lot of humanity organizations are calling their staff back home. What can we do more? All the works for days, months and year are now up to the destiny? asking Ceo and founder U.K. Sivanathan, who is also a native Sri Lankan.

SIVA4KIDS.org’s has 2 projects of Pre-School and Library for children up in the northern pennsylvania of Sri Lanka. “Some how we were afraid this situation, a situation which was not possible to avoid due to the latest incidents, a situation which would bring the northern eastern part of Sri Lanka back to the time before Tsunami, only poverty, poverty and poverty” a sad conclusion of U.K. Sivanathan, who still hope that the government body of Sri Lanka and the independent group LTTE would put down the war path and cooperate on developing the Islands together with the help of International NGO’s.

“Even though we as NGO’s have worked hard within our limits to develope a place or an environment of an area, it is heartbreaking to see all falling apart in few days …” concluded U.K. Sivanathan on the day where the Civil War in Sri Lanka slowly showing the nonvoiding face to the world.

Lets pray for the people of Sri Lanka but mostly the children who are still the most vulnerable victims of WAR, TSUNAMI and now …!

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Tags: Ampara district, Computer room, Kalmunai, Library, Sri Lanka, Vishnu School

Completed | Computer and library room in Sri Lanka

Posted on 29 March 2006 by S4K

We are very happy to inform the latest news¬†regarding the Project Upgrade of Library and Computer room of Vishnu Maha Vidyalayam (School), Kalmunai, in Sri Lanka. These Projects which were¬†launched¬†by S4K¬†last year right after the building of Vishnu School was completed. Upgrading of the facilitation’s of Vishnu Maha Vidyalayam went through a time of elections and other social reasons where it played a major role of the little delay. But we are now very eager to inform specially our donors and volunteers who had put¬†all their trust, investment and efforts on these projects¬†really payed off at the end of how it was possible to play an important role of giving hope and positive changes on the 722 children in Ampara district, where the tsunami stroke most, in Sri lanka.

Due to the request of the principal of Vishnu Maha Vidyalaya School, SIVA4KIDS.org made the¬†following upgrade of the educational facilities¬†in¬†the Computer training center and furnishing of Library of Vishnu Maha Vidyalya School, Periyaneelavani, Kalmunai (Eastern province of Sri Lanka).

By achieving efficient results we are very happy to strengthen the trust and faith in SIVA4KIDS.org among our volunteers, supporters, companies¬†and organizations, who have been the step stones for SIVA4KIDS and for¬†these¬†positive results. We appreciate your¬†support and patient.

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Tags: Ampara, Children, Kalmunai, school, Sri Lanka, Vishnu Tamil School

Ceremonial opening of Vishnu School

Posted on 25 October 2005 by S4K

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Siva for Kids Foundation can finally inform sponsors, donors and supporters that the Project Vishnu School is¬†completed in Sri Lanka. Some of you may already have seen the pictures while¬†Vishnu School¬†was being built and also afterwards the finalized building which was possible to view through the “Evaluation” pictures on the gallery of S4K.

The ceremonial opening of Vishnu School building was held on the 18th of¬†October 2005¬†and conducted from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in Kalmunai, Ampara district, in Sri Lanka. The former principal of Vishnu School, Mr. Ramasamy Vadivel, was the chief guest to the ceremony to inaugurate the building.

Siva for Kids Foundation¬†would like to use this opportunity to extend our heartfelt thanks to you all who¬†were a part of this very successful project in Sri Lanka.

The beautiful ceremonial opening of Vishnu School was also LIVE at TTN a sri lankan television which provide the activity and happenings of sri lankan¬†people to across the Europe and world.

According to the sources Thursday 20th of October 2005 between 21.00 and 22.00GMT hours the TTN viewers could LIVE follow the ceremonial opening of Vishnu School of Kalmunai, Ampara district in Sri Lanka.¬†You can view the Gallery by clicking here or only the opening ceremony of the Vishnu School.

We also would like to use this opportunity to¬†point out¬†that the work of Siva for Kids Foundation is not completed in the Vishnu School yet¬†while S4K is still busy with the projects of¬†¬† facilitating the computer room and the library of Vishnu School. Therefore we would appreciate if you could be a part of this project by donate us¬†or help us by buying our postcards.

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Tags: a Tamil refugee, an ordinary boy, Camilla Bj¬¢rn, Danish group, Denmark, Sri Lanka, story

A boy and a bike

Posted on 11 September 2005 by S4K

This story is about boy I met in Sri Lanka. Perhaps he is an ordinary boy I would not know because I‚Äòm not from that world, but his story touched me which is why I want to tell you all about his life.

I started noticing him after a few days. His blue t-shirt was more grey from the dust and concrete and sweat was constantly running from his forehead. He was always carrying the heaviest buckets, 2 at a time, and prepared to move when anything needed. He had the lower rang among the bricklayers though they tried to be nice to him from time to time.

His name was M. and he told us that he was 16 years old (though he looks so much younger.) I kind of got concerned about him when I realized how lonely his work must be. Being a child he wasn‚Äòt really treated as an equal by the older skilled workers.He was always expected to do things quicker and better. And how strange that some white people travel half the world to do a similar job to his…

One evening Kajendran who is a Tamil refugee from Denmark (who speaks both Tamil and Danish) spoke with M. and I joined the conversation as well as I could. Apparently, M¬¥s father was unfit for work because of an accident to do with construction, something about a knife in his head; however, the translation may have slightly changed the story. So now, M. was forced to work to provide for his parents and four sisters who went to school and occasionally worked. He was very balanced while he told us this about his realities and smiled when I added questions. And was so shy when we brought the camera, but he was also in the middle of his simple dinner. He had accepted the conditions of his life though he had liked going to school when he had the possibility. He told us without seeming annoyed that it was now too late for him to go to school (how ironic that he was building classrooms).They had moved to another place and the school was now too far away to reach on foot and a bicycle was an impossible wish. Now a bike was an even bigger desire because he had to sleepon the building site far away, whichmeant that he was away from his family for weeks. A bicycle would ease the chances to sleep at home and work nearby.

Kajendran and I looked at each other. The boy‚Äòs wish was so simple and yet so crucial. But to him the 5000rupeesthat it would cost to make the dream come true were count less compared to the 350(ca.3‚ÅÑ)rupees he was paid pr. day.

That night we talked to the rest of the Danish group, and we told them the story about the boy and the bike. At the end of the week we ask M. to come a long. He felt that something was going on, and after ended work he was hed the dust off at the water tank and changed his dirty clothes. We bought the bicycle he pointed out and after a little thought bagging M. and I wheeled it back a long the main road with all the curious eyes following us. He could not one English word but his smile was also already saying it all.

The bicycle alone probably did not change his life, but I hope it contributed to making his and his family‚Äòs life a little better, and that they know that we did it for solicitude not for mercy. Most of all I hope that M will continue dreaming‚Ä¶

Pictured by Camilla Bj¬¢rn

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Tags: 15 danes, 20 sri lankans, building, Children, Danish, Danish school, Denmark, Europeans, Mie Andersen, school, schoolyard, Sri Lanka, Tsunami, tsunamiproject, volunteer

Building of a school in Sri Lankan way

Posted on 30 August 2005 by S4K

The children are watching us with curious eyes. It is difficult to concentrate on the teacher, when 15young Danes together with 20 young Sri Lankans dig holes and carry large stones of granite only a few meters away. Obviously, it is not an everyday event to see pale Europeans working with the sweat pouring off them.

It is one of our first working days at the school, and we are about to turn the schoolyard into construction site. On the road outside the school is a large heap of granite stones, which we slowly move into the schoolyard. We¬†did not¬†have any machines to help us and only a few wheelbarrows, so most of the stones are carried all the way. It is hard work, but we spend the time by learning words in each other‚Äòs languages. It is quite difficult for us Danes, because some wants to teach us Tamil words and some wants to teach us Singhalese words. I am beginning to appreciate, that we only have one language in Denmark.

We are going to make a new building inside the schoolyard. After the tsunami, the school received many new students, because their former school, which was situated very close to the sea, was destroyed by the tsunami. To make room for the new students, there were some temporary classrooms, but an open shed made of palm leaves or sheet metal is not enough when the monsoon sets in.
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In general, the physical conditions are very different from a Danish school. The small, worn-out chairs and tables stand close together directly on either sand or cement floor. Some places the cement is broken, so there are large holes in the middle of the classroom. Everywhere there are small pieces of garbage like paper or plastic. The school has a place for garbage in a corner behind the buildings, but not everything ends up there. Photo:srilankabrigaden 2005 The garbage place is just next to the toilets, so there is a‚Äînice‚Äúsmell, when you get near this area. Actually, I would not call it toilets. It is nothing but a hole in the earth. There is not even water for washing like the most other places we have been. Even the Sri Lankans from our brigade agree,that these toilets are very bad.

In spite of the poor settings the children are happy and smiling. They run around playingand make just as much noise as Danish school children. The most brave of them gather in small groups and say ‚Äîhello‚Äú or ‚Äîwhat‚Äòs your name?‚Äú to the strange looking foreigners. When we show an interest in them,they are eager to show us their books and read tous. Every child is wearingaschool uniform. The girls lookvery descent in awhite dress,which ends just below the knees. Often their long hair is arranged in twobraids,soeven girls from the eldest grades look like small schoolgirls. The boys are wearing blue shorts and awhite t-shirt. Both boys and girls are wearingatie. In general the dif-ference in sex is marked very clearly. I don‚Äòt think there is any room for boys playingwith dolls or girls climbingin trees.
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In the afternoon school is over,but some of the school boys come backin normal clothes tohelpus with the work. The small,slight boys are working very hard ≈ì toohard sometimes,we thinkwith our Danish view of children‚Äòs work. Iguess most Sri Lankan boys are used tohard workfrom an early age. But the boys alsohave time for fun. They thinkit is very amusingto get aride in the wheelbarrows ≈ì the faster the better.

It was nice tosee that our workinspired the children todosomethingon their own. It made them apart of the project,sothe school buildingwas not only somethingthat some strangers came todofor them. Iwonder if Danish children would be willingtoworkfreely toget the opportunity togo toschool?Iguess not. In that light Danish children seem very spoiled.
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The workwas hard and sometimes frustratingbecause of poor or missing tools and misunderstandings in the communication. Everythingtookmore time than planned,sowe didn‚Äòt have time tofinish the school completely. Even though Ifeel, that we did something useful. Ithinkthe most important was not the result of our physical work,but the result of our presence. The attention we showed tothe school children and tothe community has hopefully given the people there new hope and spirit and made it easier for them torecover from their great losses.