| On June 1st, Jeanne-Marie Mannavarayan, a Riverside Secondary School teacher, gave a talk on their group visit to Sri Lanka this year.She commented as follows:
"During Spring Break, some students and staff from Riverside Secondary visited an orphanage of blind and deaf children in Sri Lanka. This trip represents a project in global education. It is designed to learn and to care about less fortunate children, to reach out and to share in the life of children in a developing country. To this purpose, we took basic supplies, such as clothes, shoes, Braille educational material, school and medical supplies. With the money collected thanks to donators in the community and organizations such as the Rotary Club of Port Coquitlam and many hours of recycling drink containers at school, we were able to provide the children with food, mattresses, chiming clocks, cabinets and a new drainage system to get rid of stagnant waters and mosquitoes that cause maleria. In the process, the lives of our students were enriched by the contact of a different culture; they also developed a keener sense of responsibility and justice, as well as a deeper appreciation for the country we live in."
Jeanne-Marie Mannavarayan
Riverside Secondary School
Port Coquitlam, BC | 