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| Tuesday, 1 March 2005 |
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While governments and numerous local and international non-governmental organisations are busy providing immediate help, and planning different strategies for rehabilitating the tsunami victims, the expatriate community of Sri Lanka is reaching out to offer a helping hand to their kith and kin at the time of their need. Doctors Nandi Wignarajah and Swarna Gooneratne from Stockton-on-Tees in North East of England arrived in Sri Lanka in February to observe first-hand the trauma and the predicament of the victims of the tsunami which devastated the coastline in late December, and to offer their assistance. On arrival they visited the camps in Galle, Hikkaduwa and Panadura, and spent days watching and listening to the displaced, collecting information and doing their own research. Doctors Wignarajah and Gooneratne felt that they should target the most vulnerable group in this human tragedy-the children. So far they have managed to open nearly 100 fixed deposit accounts in the names of these children. They are planning to give financial assistance to some children in Kalmunai as well. Apart from the monetary aid they have also distributed essential items in regard to daily living, such as cooking utensils and mosquito nets as well as items like security lights for refugee camps for those displaced by the disaster. |
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