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Hi All,
My wife and I have since the Tsunami, gone to the School for the Deaf at Sitinamaluwa and The School for the Blind at Polonnmaruwa just interior to Tangalle and provided equipment and supplies as well as painted the School building and Dormitory at Sitinamaluwa. We were in Sri lanka in November 2009 and painted the School building and bought educational material for the class rooms and furniture for the dormitory. Paula is already negotiating with a supplier to get Mattresses for the children and we will be visiting them again this next visit to see what other needs they may have at Sitinamaluwa.
Paula and I have also met with Harsha, the Dean, at the Medical Faculty at Colombo and offered to raise funds to get an Instituitional Subscription for the electronic data base " Upto Date" which will povide the students with a comprehensive web based library with peer reviewed material and references to do more reading as needed. This offer has been extended to the Medical faculty at Peradeniya as well, through a former Medical stdent who we met during our post tsunami stay at Kahawa and Peraliya. Indrajith just informed me that he had graduated with honours.
I believe they are working on a trial use, to detrmine the subscription based on usage and the niumber of connections they need to meet the demand. Each Annual subscription could be in the range of $ 5000- $ 7500. This would be a project that would be an excellent way to make an impact for the education of our future physicians. Additional monies would be necessary to get computer networking for the library and can also be possible to obtain text books on line and research networks as needed.
Any thoughts re this would be very welcome. Nalini may know what is currently available to students and Faculty at Colombo .
Sincerely
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