The district of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, gave District Governor Lucky
and his Task Force a unanimous vote of support and pledged to ensure
that Rotary Sri Lanka will be able to deliver on its pledge to rebuild
22 schools by the 1st of December.
After weeks of meticulous planning, the district today unveiled the full
details of its project to rebuild the schools affected by the Tsunami
disaster to a packed audience consisting of all Presidents, President
Elects and several Community Service Directors from the district of Sri
Lanka.
Every single Rotary Club in the country was assigned a role in the
challenging task of rebuilding the schools. Every School allocated to
Rotary was assigned a Lead Club and two Associate Clubs who would
be responsible for the supervision and logistical support of the work on
the school.
An Apex Committee headed by Past District Governor K. Ravindran
and comprising of all the stakeholders will have overall responsibility
for the entire project. Standard Chartered Bank will be one of the main
partners of the project as will UNICEF. A representative of the Education
Ministry and PDG Tissa Bandaranayake and PDG N.R. Gajendran, both
Senior partners of Audit firms will also be part of the Committee. Total
transparency will be a key aspect of the project.
Work on the schools will commence immediately and Clubs have been
set a two-week deadline for the submission of preliminary estimates.
All details of every school being rebuilt will be posted on the website and
updated with regular progress reports and whenever possible some pictures.
