US-High School Girl Donates Two-Thousand Books to Establish School Libraries in Tsunami-Devastated Areas in Sri Lanka

Sarasi Jayaratne (17), a junior in Potomac Falls High School and a student of the Academy of Science in Virginia, USA, and a Senior Girl Scout Cadet in the Washington D.C. area, has donated more than 2,000 children’s books to schools in the tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka through her program Keep Reading. As the founder of Keep Reading, a nonprofit program that fosters educational development, Sarasi is promoting reading and the importance of English as a universal language among disadvantaged children in the tsunami affected areas of Sri Lanka.