Daru Sevana- caring gift from PricewaterhouseCoopers

...this new home with a capacity for 36 children and 4 staff members is an architectural creation of Priyantha Anthony -a member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. The special features of this new home are an infirmary room for use when the children fall sick, spaces for outdoor games (netball and badminton) and indoor games (table tennis and other board games). Comfortable living areas with modern amenities are accompanied by separate dining and study areas.

Hans Wagener, the territorial senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Germany, recently opened a fully equipped children’s home and vocational centre at Kosgama and handed it over to Neetha Ariyaratne General Secretary, Sarvodaya Suwasetha.

Also at the opening ceremony was Frank Brebeck, a member of the German Leadership Team - who a year earlier laid the foundation stone for this new complex, a nominee representing Heidi Broll of Sarvodaya Germany, Lynton Pieris of PwC Germany- who was the live wire in conceptualising and managing the project, Yudi Kanagasabai, Chief Executive Officer PwC Colombo.

Aptly named as “PricewaterhouseCoopers Germany – Daru Sevana,” this new home with a capacity for 36 children and 4 staff members is an architectural creation of Priyantha Anthony -a member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. The special features of this new home are an infirmary room for use when the children fall sick, spaces for outdoor games (netball and badminton) and indoor games (table tennis and other board games). Comfortable living areas with modern amenities are accompanied by separate dining and study areas. There is ample space reserved for home gardening, environmental practices and nature observations.

A modern vocational centre with a fully equipped computer room, a library, a sewing training centre, a multi media centre and a conference room will provide training and development options for the girls.

The fully equipped modern kitchen will also serve as a centre for cookery training.

In addition, this modern facility is to serve as a training and development centre initially for other girls attending the adjoining Kosgama School, and later to be extended to other village girls of Kosgama. The centre is to be managed by the Sarvodaya Women’s Movement.