Project Smile

Project SMILE is a long term Social Service Project based in Negombo, Sri Lanka, under the theme "All we wanna do is bring a SMILE to your face".

The project is mainly focuses on helping and supporting under privileged school children in rural districts. Still the project does not confine itself to that, helping anyone it possibly can.

The main objective of this project is to help people. This project operates and functions with other Donors, Organizations, Institutions, Associations and Clubs "to do more for the people and society touching more and more lives", as they claim it.

This project is open for anyone to participate in or to get help from.

History

Project SMILE was put together by the Past Prefects' Association (PPA) of Maris Stella College (MSC), Negombo, Sri Lanka, as a long term Social Service Project. It was founded by Shammika Fernando (Director General of Project SMILE), past Vice President of PPA-MSC and now it is under a separate management structure. Yet it organizes its projects in collaboration with the PPA-MSC and most of the active members are Past Prefects of MSC, Negombo.

The Project SMILE was officially launched on the 11th of December, 2004 at the 3rd Annual General Meeting & 4th Annual Get-together of the PPA-MSC.

Project Stages

When the Project started it was divided into four stages:
*Stage 1 - Let people know about this project and its objectives
*Stage 2 - Establish a Separate Fund for this project - "SMILE FUND"
*Stage 3 - Make the "Smile Fund" available for the people who seriously need help and start a scholarship program for the education of least privileged children of the country
*Stage 4 - Take this Project Global

External links

* [http://www.smilesl.org/index.htm Project SMILE official Web Site]