The anniversary of the 2004 Asian Tsunami is now approaching. Our team will not be holding a special event to mark the occasion. We want to normalise our response to this life changing event with quiet dignity. We hope that through our various projects, Adoptsrilanka has touched the lives of our beneficiaries in a positive way and that through the generosity of our donors; we have given them a helping hand at a desperate moment in time. We continue working for the under privilege, marginalized and deprived people of Sri Lanka and look forward to a very positive 2008. All 2005 Tsunami projects are now completed We are continuing to work in the Southern Province on second phase development that will hopefully reach marginalized and deprived communities and schools. The Nugagahahena Village at Mirissa is now completed and can be viewed on this site. It consists of 104 houses, community centre/ Pre School, temple, a large playing common and is home to aprox 700 people. The last of our 30’ day Trawlers has now been finished with the engine about to be fitted. This completes our project to replace the Galle Trawler Fleet that was destroyed in the tsunami. All our small boat orders have been completed and project fish & ships is over. The new 25 meter swimming pool to be built at Galle is now underway. ASL have pulled out of the Kosgoda project to build a visitors center for marine conservation in favour of a more suitable site at Rekewa, one of the worlds most famous turtle nesting beaches. We are funding the TCP to purchase land at Rekewa near Tangalle with the purpose to build a Visitors Centre. The Visitors Centre will also include a facility for research, a café, a shop selling local craft and a turtle watch programme. ASL has allocated funds to replant Mangrove and Pandanus trees (spin pines) on the de-nuded coast line of the south coast. We are also starting a new progamme to generate nurseries for utility plants (ayurveda, jack fruit, mango etc) that will generate an income for the locals in the Rekewa area. The Trauma Relief team have now officially wound down their tsunami work on the south coast with the exception of our Orphan Sponsorship Programme. ASL is now very committed to supporting the Rainbow Centre Project –for deprived street children in Bentota. We are actively fundraising for a bus to transport the children daily to and from the Rainbow Centre Twins is our biggest project; we now have 100 Sri Lankan schools twinned with overseas schools. Twins are about to enter into an environment programme in Sri Lanka called “gardens for life” that links up with the Eden Project in Cornwall as part of a horticultural exchange programme. ASL is holding two events at the Galle Literary Festival in January 2007.
	We will be staging an inaugural debating workshop that will kick start the year long debating event, involving 80 schools. The first event of its kind in SL. A creative writing competition finale, heats have been ongoing through out the southern province education zone for two months. The students were given a choice of three subjects. The judging and prize giving will be held at the festival.