| Holy Trinity is a small whitewashed church on a
wooded hillock overlooking Pussellawa. The inside is cool and airy.
There are brass memorials to a number of plantation owners and
superintendents. The church will be 150 years old in 2009. Pussellawa is half way between Kandy and the biggest
highlands town, Nuwara Eliya. The steep, winding road is currently
being widened, a huge project being undertaken by a Chinese company. |
In the shadow of Holy Trinity is the
Peacemakers Pre-School. Established in 1976, the pre-school is attended by 85
children of the four faiths in Sri Lanka. Crammed into the simple premises
a wide variety of activities takes place, not just the pre-school classes
in the morning. |
| The main room in the Pre-School. Classes
are conducted in Sinhala, Tamil and English and the work on the walls
reflects this variety. By encouraging understanding of multiple
languages at the earliest possible stage, the pre-school lives up to its
name. |
Father Rex, the Parish Priest of Pussellawa
lights the traditional lamp at the start of the Year End Concert of the
Pre School in the Town Hall. Father Rex is also a senior tutor at TCL. He
speaks the 3 Sri Lankan languages, plus Italian and German, and Biblical Hebrew
and Greek |
