‘German Buzz’ touches hearts in Eastern Province

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For the second time, German Buzz, a joint initiative of the German Embassy, the Goethe-Institut, the GIZ and TAFA toured Sri Lanka, this time in the Eastern Province.

A group of 30 volunteers and professionals visited four schools to bring a day of joy and fun to over 1,200 children in and to donate equipment to the underprivileged communities. The group toured Batticaloa Province to visit schools in remote and underprivileged communities. The days were filled with:

A play put together by the University of Jaffna, Faculty of Arts. Their piece ‘Birds who forgot how to fly’ was brought on stage with the professional support of German drama specialist Anne Klatt and financed by the Goethe-Institut

German-animated clips of ‘Die Sendung mit der Maus’ (‘The program with the mouse’) with non-verbal, children-friendly clips around the friendship of a mouse, an elephant and a duck

Professional football coaching executed by TAFA – Thaabit Ahmed Football Academy and

Drawing classes, hula hoop games, sack race, tug of war, egg races, singing games for primary students and much more.

Thanks to the generous support from Sri Lankan and German companies as well as a German football foundation, the group was able to donate balls, drawing material, stationary and books to the schools, which are dearly required by the schools in Batticaloa Central, Kalkudah and Paddiruppu zones due to the lack of resources of their own.

Thank goes to the sponsors of this event: DFB-Stiftung Egidius Braun, DIMO Ltd., JF&I Packaging, Senok Trade Ltd., Allianz Lanka Ltd., Bayer Thai Co. Ltd., Abans Auto Ltd., Porsche, BASF Lanka Ltd. and EU-Retec Ltd.