PROJECT DESCRIPTION   Educate a child is a project which was started in Kalutara in 1984. Currently there are eight hundred and seventy two children enrolled in the project. These children are from very poor homes. Their parents are unable to send their children to school because they are unable to provide them the shoes, uniforms, writing books, pens, pencils, paints boxes of mathematical instruments etc that a child needs to enable him/her to attend school and obtain the “free” education provided by the government. The ages of these children range from school entry level (6 years) to A levels (17 + years). All the children in the project live in the Kalutara district. They go to one of eleven schools in the Kalutara area. This is the 20th year of this project.