Battle Begins

Battle for the Middle earth came to an end but battle for a successful PBOX has just begun.

Last Monday (On a full moon Poya day!) we were planning for our PBOX. Our PBOX based on Education. We identified that the lack of practical English knowledge in Sri Lankan education is a big issue. So we were decided to focus on that.

Summary of PBOX follows.

Name: Wings to fly

Vision: Unity through English

Goals:
1. Improve communication skills
2. Cultivate Unity among different ethnic groups (i.e. Tamils, Sinhalese, and Muslims)
3. Develop interpersonal skills of the school children.

Through this project we are trying to develop a solid platform for children to face the dynamic future.

We were decided to bring down 6 interns to teach English in 6 schools (TNs). All members agreed to bring down DT inters because it’s cost effective and they are the most suitable people to do this kind of community development program.

Then we set the Job description for the SNs. We’d like to have a teacher who can teach English in more interactive and practical manner, because we wanna attract the children towards the English using practical sessions.

We found that TNs (Schools) will get advantage by taking part in this program. These are the benefits they can gain by taking part in our project which based on exchange.
1.Intellectual resource for the schools.
2.Can help the children to achieve their potential.
3.Global exposure to the school.
4.Selected 6 schools can maintain a good relationship among them, even in the future after this project.


To move our project forward we want a firm financial support, so we have to find sponsors for our project. We focused on some sponsors and soon we’ll contact them in order to get the financial support.

Sponsors also can gain some advantage by taking part in our project. Since we are bringing down foreign interns it’s giving them a global exposure. Like wise in our web site we’ll put their company as sponsors. So it’s a good opportunity to promote their brand and show their social responsibility.

Then we talked about the mentors, conferences like stuffs, which comes under the learning activity section. Finally we came up with the time line but still we have to plan more on time line. Hopefully by this week we’ll be finishing our initial planning section. Then we can go to raise TNs and sponsors.

Yeah! WE ARE DOING A GREAT JOB!!!!!