Between January and July 2011 a series of teacher training programmes has been implemented in our partnership villages in the Matara district. These have been designed to help the teachers in the community pre-schools to learn more of the English language in both spoken and written forms and to provide them with on-going in-service training for teaching young pupils.

A month long (one day a week) course, followed by a 20 week programme was conducted by our Sri Lankan Associate Kanthi Perera, and then in July 2011 the team of student volunteers conducted further sessions. It is intended to continue contributions to teacher training in the future, given the success of the sessions so far and the emphasis on sustainability of our educational endeavours.