Buddhini Vithanage with two of her young students. Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara
https://www.sundaytimes.lk/250810/p...-as-they-teach-little-ones-at-lrh-607703.html
For Buddhini Vithanage from Kiribathgoda who will next take up duties at Visakha Vidyalaya, the realities of life dawned when she took under her tutelage a 13-year-old girl from Nittambuwa. When she had been born prematurely, her mother had abandoned her and her father had gone abroad to find money to help his mother look after his daughter. So the teenager was under the care of her Achchi and in hospital for over three months with kidney issues.
“She had been in Grade 8 but was very weak in mathematics, unable even to do basic additions,” says Buddhini, detailing how she taught her and was planning to go on to subtractions the next day, only to find that “baba nethi wela” (the girl had died).
පව් බං වැදගත් කෙල්ලෙක් වගේ.
https://www.sundaytimes.lk/250810/p...-as-they-teach-little-ones-at-lrh-607703.html
For Buddhini Vithanage from Kiribathgoda who will next take up duties at Visakha Vidyalaya, the realities of life dawned when she took under her tutelage a 13-year-old girl from Nittambuwa. When she had been born prematurely, her mother had abandoned her and her father had gone abroad to find money to help his mother look after his daughter. So the teenager was under the care of her Achchi and in hospital for over three months with kidney issues.
“She had been in Grade 8 but was very weak in mathematics, unable even to do basic additions,” says Buddhini, detailing how she taught her and was planning to go on to subtractions the next day, only to find that “baba nethi wela” (the girl had died).
පව් බං වැදගත් කෙල්ලෙක් වගේ.
