Video 1 - Elephants, cricket and the tourist trade
 | | Ben at the Pinawala Elephant orphanage |
In this video, Ben Moore visits the elephants from the Pinawala orphanage, which was founded in 1975 and is state-run, but ran into severe difficulties when the tsunami struck, as Keerti Singham from the orphanage explains.
 | | Keerti Singham |
Ben also visits a cricket pitch that looks more like a mud bath for the elephants, but it's hoped that the ground will host a test cricket match at the end of the year. Finally, Ben explores the coastlines of Sri Lanka, where once the tourist trade boomed. People like Manick Rodrigo, owner of Barberyn Reef Hotel, hopes that holiday-makers will once again return to the now struggling tourist areas. Video 2 - Housing
 | | RITA housing in Sri Lanka |
Ben Moore explores how the Reading Iniative For Tsunami Action is helping to rebuild the lives of people who lost everything in the tsunami. He also speaks to Dewadasa Sokumal who survived the tsunami. Video 3 - Workshops
 | | Klaskaduwe Rathana Theve |
Find out more about the monk who's offering fellow Sri Lankans a future. Ben speaks to monk Klaskaduwe Rathana Theve about his work building houses and workshops for his community. Video 4 - Schools
 | | Children wait to receive new shoes |
The Reading charity's discovered that while Sri Lankan schools need computers, their pupils still need shoes. Ben meets the children receiving the latest delivery. Ben also sent BBC Berkshire some blogs while he was out in Sri Lanka. | 
