We've started building the 2nd step of our community centre!

HELP has decided to put up a two-storey extension of our community centre, giving our organisation a bigger assembly hall / classroom, offices/library and an apartment section. The folk high school vision is still vibrant. Financing is not yet ensured in detail, but our board is confident that funds and donations will be made available.

The cornerstone will be set in the foundation at 10:56 AM on 13 May this year. Time for laying the foundation stone has been determined by astrologers. In Sri Lanka, this is always done as a ritual with blessings of religion. Physical limitations imposed by cultural beliefs manifest underlying measures taken to safeguard the environment, and provide users the most ideal environment to dwell in, whenever construction takes place. This is contrary to the Western position where no such limitations exist; to enable construction activities to take place more freely.

Here is a YouTube video from our ground preparations, on 12 May: