Horizon Lanka Foundation

About 08 years ago, Horizon School was very small. But at present, it has come up to a certain stand arid with a big Computer Laboratory and a 24 hour internet connection free of charge. We had to operate without Internet for a longtime. We get Internet from Lanka com. All the children have online experience.   Free-of-charge Internet access is given to 30 houses and public schools using Mesh technology. Due to the said present capacity of Horizon Lanka Foundation, foreign countries as well as the higher officials in Sri Lanka have taken keen attention about the foundation.

I’m study at Saliya Mala Viduhala in Mahavilachchiya. It’s a small Government school. At the time when I was in grade 4, I didn’t have much interest in studying English. But after the arrival of Mr. Wanninayake at Saliya Mala School, the students felt like studying English and that is in accordance with his comprehensive method of teaching and his calling over various kinds of processes which turned the students towards studying English. English subject is better than Sinhala subject.

He did extra classes after school time for us. We had our English class under the mango tree. We sat on the floor. I think you also know him. He is Mr. Nandasiri Wanninayaka. He is the only person behind our success in providing our village with computers and building a computer lab in Mahavilachchiya.

We have more facilities in Horizon Lanka. There are facilities to study, dance, play, use computers and excise machines and watch English movies.  We lean more subjects such as English, Computer, Mathematics, Music, Sports and Science.  Horizon students have personal web pages. Those are designed by themselves. We can use our English skills to design the web pages.

I have the internet facility at home. I think I’m too lucky for it. I’m using Internet to collect education articles, read newspapers, find new friends, write mails, chat with them and see new sites.  My only dream is doing a job in graphic design and photography. 

I participate for the classes at Horizon school because I can improve my computer and English knowledge and connect to the world. There are about 30 Mesh Houses around the village and about half of the total of villagers can operate computers and they have come to a position of reading newspapers through internet at their house by themselves. My parents can operate computer too. http://horizonlanka.org/news/mesh/kumar/kumar.html

Horizon Lanka started as a BPO project in Mahavilachchiya to create more jobs and develop our village.

At the inception of Horizon School, the students studied under the trees due to inadequate rooms in the school but this position has entirely changed at present and the students are very fortunate at present to study in a big computer laboratory with almost all the internet facilities.