Ocean Stars News - ongoing work in Sri Lanka and UK

Crookham Junior School's funded well

Crookham Junior School, Church Crookham, Fleet have been fund-raising for a well for Pattipalai preschool

Naomi Booth :: Wednesday 13th November 2019 :: This Story

The money they have been raising has been used towards building a tube well for Pattipalai preschool. You can see the well being dug and now the finished well well with pump is ready to be used.

Pre-school children Well at pre-school in Sri Lanka The pre-school class.jpg Well water Picture: /files/latest-news/365/w288/76a0946b-0223-4556-93dd-42aad627317a.jpg

Using the new well Children at the new well New pre-school well in use

New website for Ocean Stars Lanka

Find out more about the team and the work they do in Sri Lanka there

Naomi Booth :: Tuesday 12th November 2019 :: This Story

Picture: /files/latest-news/364/w288/osl-new-website.jpg Ocean Stars Lanka (OSL) is a registered all-island NGO in based in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka. The charity runs educational and community projects in areas affected by the 2004 Tsunami and 26-year Sri Lankan civil war. Ocean Stars Lanka's is funded by its sister organisation Ocean Stars Trust UK.

Ocean Stars Lanka now have their own website oceanstarslanka.lk.

Workshop in partnership with World Vision

Ocean Stars Lanka works in partnership with World Vision to deliver workshops on scaling up nutrition to all our preschool teachers.

Naomi Booth :: Saturday 9th November 2019 :: This Story

The workshop was so successful it made it on to Batti News http://www.battinews.com/2019/11/blog-post_729.html?m=1

OSL had to bid for the funding and their proposal was chosen so congratulations to our team on the ground. Parents from our preschools are also attending the workshops.

Nutrition workshop - food preparation Nutrition workshop for pre-school teachers Pre-school teachers learning at the workshop

By scaling up nutrition offered to our Ocean Stars preschools the aim is to improve the health of the children so they can better access their preschool education. The impact will then be measured through our Child Development programme.

Ocean Stars Banner Ocean Stars Lanka banner

Follow the trip

The October 2019 trip is on it's way to Sri Lanka - find out how to keep up with them...

Naomi Booth :: Monday 21st October 2019 :: This Story

Crookham Junior School Harvest Breakfast Results

They raised £ 691.88 with their Harvest Breakfast and money raised from promises.

Naomi Booth :: Sunday 20th October 2019 :: This Story

The aim is to raise money by carrying out the acts of kindness which will then be donated to Ocean Stars to help build a well at the Pattipalai Preschool.

The children at Crookham Junior School are really looking forward to seeing how the project develops.

Hope House Pilot Sewing Machine Project

Launching our BUSINESS LOANS FOR SEWING MACHINES scheme today in Sri Lanka

Naomi Booth :: Monday 14th October 2019 :: This Story

Our Ocean Stars Monitoring and Evaluation team in Sri Lanka lunched our BUSINESS LOANS FOR SEWING MACHINES scheme today 14.10.19 in Sri Lanka. A rigorous planning process has been ongoing for the past year and today saw the project come into fruition.

Zeddy Kibet our M&E Officer gave the Ladies basic business training on Financial Records and taught them about Business Management.

Picture: /files/latest-news/359/w288/sewing-machine-sri-lanka.jpg

Celebrating Harvest in Crookham

Crookham Junior School Harvest Breakfast

Naomi Booth :: Friday 11th October 2019 :: This Story

Crookham Junior School have been celebrating Harvest with their tradition of Harvest Breakfast.

The children work together in groups to organise their breakfasts. Some children bring in beautiful table decorations, while others bring in bread, pastries, waffles and pancakes, and others bring the fruit and the jam. It's a wonderful celebration but the children also spend time thinking about what they can do for others.

This year each child has taken home some promises of good deeds they intend to do. The aim is to raise money by carrying out the acts of kindness which will then be donated to Ocean Stars to help build a well at the Pattipalai Preschool.

The children at Crookham Junior School are really looking forward to seeing how the project develops.

Many Thanks Ladies as always,

Dilanee

Ocean Stars October 2019 visit

Plans for Ocean Stars October 2019 visit are well under way.

Naomi Booth :: Tuesday 1st October 2019 :: This Story

15 volunteers will be travelling to Sri Lanka at the end of October to visit Ocean Stars projects and take resources out to 20 preschools. 2019 Trip volunteers

If you would like to find out more about our work or how to volunteer please visit the different pages on this website.

Frundraising despite no trip!

Calthorpe Park School students continue to fund raise for Ocean stars trust in spite of their trip being cancelled.

Naomi Booth :: Sunday 29th September 2019 :: This Story

The October Calthorpe Park School Trip to Sri-Lanka was cancelled earlier this year due to the Easter Sunday bombings. Students have so far raised £8000 for the Ocean Stars children of Sri Lanka. Their efforts were reported in the school magazine .

Students visit Ocean Stars Lanka

3 students from University of East Anglia who have just completed a Masters in International Development spent 4 days with Ocean Stars Lanka...

OceanStars :: Saturday 7th September 2019 :: This Story

They visited to understand how the charity operates on the ground in Sri Lanka.

They spent the morning at Shining Stars preschool to see how OST manages their preschool operation. One of the students commented

" I am very impressed with the work of Ocean Stars UK and Lanka. The preschools are regularly visited and monitored by OSL staff and the children are happy and the teacher feels supported by Ocean Stars."

"Your work in SL is amazing and inspiring."

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