This family invited me for lunch and would actually have liked me to stay with them.. They live some distance from the Academy, however, and in conditions, which as a spoilt Westerner, I would find difficult. I was able to talk to them about their aspirations, however. Their mother is a science teacher at the local catholic boys' college, and she brings the only income into the house, as the father is now too tired to work as a 3 wheeler driver. Also, his vehicle is not in a good state of repair, so he cannot compete with the younger drivers with newer vehicles. They also do not have money to repair their house, so when it rains heavily, as it certainly does in Batticaloa, they get wet.
All I can do for them is to send them English readers from the UK as they only have access to English fairy stories at present. All the books in the school library are in Tamil. The eldest girl would like to be a doctor, but she knows there us no money for that, so she is going to try to be an accountant, but she will still need English for university or college access.
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