Featured Project: Kalagam Visions Learning Centre (Colombo)
Working in partnership with Saiva Mangaiyar Kalagam, a Sri Lanka-based nonprofit, construction and development of the KVLC will begin in early 2008. This multistoried learning center will house a Visions office, ample space for student groups and activities (including aesthetics) from the adjacent school (Saiva Mangaiyar Vidyalayam), halls for special trainings and English, a computer lab, a multimedia room, and a Montessori nursery. Over 400 refugee children from the Northeast will benefit from this project, as well as countless other disadvantaged and deserving youth and teachers!
Financial Estimates for the KVLC
Land: US $400,000
Building: US $320,000
Total Estimated Cost: US $720,000
Donations Received to-date: US $570,000
Amount Still Needed: US $150,000
Please make your tax-exempt donation by sending a check payable to 'Operation USA'[ Tax ID#953504080 ],
clearly specifing 'Visions' on the front of the check,
and mail to:
Visions
1621 Barry Ave. #PH1
Los Angeles, CA 90025 |
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Visions Past Projects in Sri Lanka, Kenya, & India
- Visions Leadership Camp: Batticaloa (2003)
- Visions Leadership Camp: Jaffna (2004)
- Visions Leadership Camp: Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Jaffna (2005)
- Visions Leadership Camp: Dunga, Milimani (2007)
- Visions Leadership Camp: Colombo (2007)
- Visions Teacher Training Camp: Colombo (2007)
- Placed 3 girls from Trincomalee on 3-year dance scholarship in Chennai, India (2003)
- Donated funds to Student Leadership Committees in Batticaloa and Trincomalee and oversaw progress (2005)
- Gave scholarships to 10 boys at Hindu Board of Education Children’s Home in Jaffna (2007)
- Implemented Phase 1 of Effective English Teaching program (2007)
- Donated Multimedia Room to Saiva Mangaiyar Vidyalayam in Colombo (2007)
- Visions Leadership Training: Karaikal, India (2008)
- Visions 1-day Leadership Trainings: Nairobi & Kitale, Kenya (2008)
- Donated approx. 2,000 books to Saiva Mangaiyar Vidyalaym in Colombo (2008)
- Visions Youth Leadership Training: Colombo, Sri Lanka (2009)
- Visions Teacher Leadership Training: Colombo, Sri Lanka (2009)
**The Visions Learning Centre project in Trincomalee has been stalled since 2005 due to violence and instability in that region, although plans were laid down, partnerships forged, and funds raised; this project has been relocated to Colombo, but Visions has the intent of one day building and developing the Visions Learning Centre in Trincomalee.
Visions Annual Report 2007(download)
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