Isuru Pre-School (previously known as Talpe Temple School Foundation) is the result of evolution. Below its story to date.
Isuru Pre-School was built in 2005 in the wake of the devastating Asian tsunami. The school is home to the Isuru Montessori Pre-School. Isuru provides an otherwise unaffordable to 65 3-5 year-old village children annually.
In 2010, an expansion program was begun. The school’s second floor will offer increased educational & learning facilities to the children, monks & villagers of Talpe.
Christmas Eve 2004. Eugene Bay & Matthieu Sosef were holidaying in an idyllic beachside villa in Southern Sri Lanka when the giant tsunami wave hit. Incredibly, they survived. Together with the terrified villagers & other visitors who also survived, they took refuge in the Talpe’s Buddhist Temple, 500m inland & 25m above sea level.
The Monks & surviving villagers of this quiet, rural area provided refuge to strangers in the midst of their tragic loss & intense trauma. A strong & lasting bond between Eugene, Matthieu, the Monks & villagers began in those difficult days. Talpe’s Temple School is the continuing physical evidence of that bond.
The school is home to the Isuru Montessori Pre-School. Since it opened in January 2007, it has provided an invaluable & otherwise unaffordable early learning opportunity to 65 3-5 year-olds annually. To date, 140 children have graduated.
The Isuru Pre-School (formally created in 2010) funds Isuru’s pupils & provides them with a well-maintained school, teachers, school uniforms, school bags, water containers & education.
In 2009, Isuru Pre-School welcomed its first volunteer English teacher. For 3 months, the school building was home to not just the Isuru pupils, but twice-weekly English lessons given to some 65 village children aged 6-17 years. The lessons were provided free of charge & therefore accessible.
The appetite & need for additional education & learning opportunities amongst all villagers became hugely apparent during this time. After just three months, all the Monks & village children were able to perform a concert entirely in English.
In January 2010, the decision was taken by Eugene Bay, Matthieu Sosef & the Temple’s High Priest to extend the school. A second floor was being built & improvements made to the original building. The enlarged school provided Talpe with educational facilities unimaginable in the dreadful days directly after the tsunami struck. The second floor was a center of learning. It was:
- to remain the home of Isuru Montessori Pre-School & facilitated increased pupil intake;
- to be enclosed from the elements;
- to have two purpose-built, fully-equipped classrooms;
- to offer a Knowledge Room which would house an Early Learning center & a Library (both firsts for the region!);
- to have a Computer Room and enable IT skills to be taught/learnt; and
- to offer ensuite accomodation for volunteers.
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The children, monks & villagers of Talpe had well-organized access to these facilities for free. Poverty was no longer a barrier to a villager wishing to improve & learn more.
2015 sees the Isuru Pre-School moving to a new, higher level of provision. It follows that the funding & resource requirements are increasing. But the school remains the personal endeavor of Eugene & Matthieu and receives their absolute attention. Whatever your donation to this cause is, you can be assured 100% will be spent on meeting local education and learning needs.
For more information, contact us at info@isurupreschool.org
