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New
Bedroom Furnishings
Thanks to the generosity and care of donors Rusi Captain of Sri Lanka and Connie Carlberg of the USA, we have been able to address all of these needs by completely refurnishing all of the sleeping rooms. This, in addition to our interior restoration project, has greatly improved the comfort and living conditions in the home, and the happiness level of the kids. Their new, sanitary beds provide much more comfort for them, and their old dark "sleeping rooms" are now bright, warm, multi-purpose rooms where they can also study, play, and socialize. While the kids certainly deserve this and much more, we are forever grateful and indebted to Mr. Captain and Mrs. Carlberg for giving us the means of affecting this for them. Thank you so much! (See project and before/after photos below)
Donors: Rusi Captain,
Connie Carlberg
The Project
We first provided all new beds and
mattresses, -52 beds total. The beds are long enough even for our
oldest kids to grow! -and standard-sized, so mattresses can easily be
replaced periodically. And since the beds are bunked, a lot of space
was created in the rooms. So, in the attractive windowed "bay" end
of each room, we put a hardwood table and four chairs, creating a
wonderful study and social environment for the kids. We also
provided a large mirror and dressing table for each room. Several
large storage cabinets were also provided for each room, -large
enough for each girl to have plenty of secure space for her own clothes,
books, and other belongings. Finally, the single hanging light bulb
was replaced in each room by bright new multi-light fixtures.
Before and After
If you are interested in funding a similar project for OSI children, please contact OSI Other Projects - View other OSI projects OSI-Wattegama Site Page - General information and photos of our Wattegama site |
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The
Wattegama home consists of 5 primary sleeping rooms. The rooms were
dark and colorless, except for a "bay" area with wrap-around
windows, at the end of each room. The rooms were crammed with beds,
necessary to accommodate all of the children in the home, making the rooms
useless for anything other than sleeping. The beds were in ill
repair, and the mattresses were ancient, -stuffed in the old way with
coconut husks, mite-infested, and falling apart after the use of
generations of children. Even the largest
beds were much too small for the older girls, and the youngest girls had
to sleep in old cribs meant for babies. The
children also had no personal storage space, -just a few small cabinets,
and books and clothes were stacked on the floor. With the sleeping
rooms arranged such, the kids were largely limited to the front veranda
area of the home for all of their leisure and study time.
