Italian delegation meets Southern Governor on village launch

GALLE: The Italian Government will provide funds for a village for tsunami affected children which consists of preschool building, swimming pool. A 12 member delegation from Italy arrived in Sri Lanka to participate in the ground breaking ceremony.

The group had been in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka immediately after the tsunami. They based in Unawatuna have supplied medical drugs, food items, to the villages in Hikkaduwa, Unawatuna, Habaradhuwa, Matara, Hambantota and also in Ampara in the North East. In the Southern Province they built and restructured fully equipped 39 medical centres from Balapitiya to Hambantota. Governor Kingsley T. Wickramaratne organised a function to felicitate the President of their Provincial Council Licia Canigola of the Ascoli Piceno Province, Italy.

Governor Kingsley T. Wickramaratne thanked the delegation, the G.U.S. President Paolo Bernabucci, Viviana Giacomini Project Manager, Massimo Di Pietro Field Coordinating Officer HSCV Marta Angeli Consultant Architect for having assisted Sri Lanka in the rehabilitation programme in building the lives of people effected by the tsunami. Certificates of appreciation were presented in recognition of Volunteer Humanitarian Services rendered by the GUS Relief Workers following the tsunami.