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Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and China Merchants Foundation donate USD 193,000 for construction of two-story school building at Tissapura Junior School in Sri Lanka in 2019

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$200,332
Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•Sri LankaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Sri LankaSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2019
Start (actual)
Jan 1, 2019
End (actual)
Oct 18, 2019

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • China Merchants Foundation (CMF)

Cofinancing agencies

State-owned companies

  • Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG)

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Sri Lanka

Loan desecription

Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and China Merchants Foundation donate USD 193,000 for construction of two-story school building at Tissapura Junior School in Sri Lanka in 2019

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2019, the Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and China Merchants Foundation donated USD 193,000 for the construction of a two-story school building at the Tissapura Junior School in Weerawila, a remote town in the Hambantota district. On October 18, 2019, the new school building was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Cheng Xueyuan, China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Y. Wickramasiri, Secretary of the Southern Province Education Ministry, and Ray Ren, CEO of the Hambantota International Port Group. The Tissapura Junior School is one of three government schools in the Weerawila area, 20 km from the port of Hambantota. The school was founded in 1986. Currently it has about 300 students and 24 teachers. Before renovation, the classrooms had been eroded by termites, wooden roofs had collapsed, and students of different grades had to share the same classroom.