Desertification - a growing problem

Can you imagine a desert exactly the size of Sri Lanka (65,610 Sq Km)? If we place Sri Lanka in the Mojave Desert in the USA, they will match almost perfectly. But if it is difficult to imagine a desert the size of Sri Lanka, Sahara, the world's biggest desert, would be mind-boggling at 9,400,000 square kilometres.

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Colombo Changes

It was tough going at S. Thomas’

Looking back now at my time at S. Thomas’, I find it hard to believe that everything could have moved so swiftly. In January 1982 I was still very much flavour of the day, with a few parents whose children had been sent to Prep asking that they be transferred because at last College seemed to be getting back to what they had known and loved.

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