Community Service

Community English

In 2009 and 2010, our students participated in a program that involved them taking what they had learned at Beacon Hill and using it to teach English to younger students in nearby villages on weekends or after school. Not only did this greatly multiply the impact of Beacon Hill on the community but it also served as a invaluable teachers training program.

Rotary Club

Rotary International is a well-known organization of service clubs located all over the world. Beacon Hill students have worked together with Rotary on several service projects and have formed a local Rotaract (student-based) chapter in Nuwara Eliya. One recent project (shown left) involved educating village members about how to prevent dengue fever.

Group Service Projects

Three times per year, our students get together as a school or in smaller groups to do service projects in the community. These have included organizing events for local orphanges and special needs schools, entertaining senior citizens in nursing homes, and large-scale cleaning projects in town.

Individual Service Projects

Students are also responsible to plan, organize, and conduct their own individual service project during the year.

Here a student is shown cleaning the area around an unused bus halt so that it could be once again used by local residents. Other projects have ranged from teaching life skills to elementary school children to raising money so that a poor family could buy a milking cow to use to earn income.