Japan provides rice for displaced

COLOMBO: The Japanese Government has donated 3,175 tonnes of rice for the newly displaced in North and East. The official handing over ceremony was held at Orugodawatte Warehouse on April 27.

Japanese Ambassador Kiyoshi Araki, J.R.W. Disanayake, Secretary, R. Tharmakulasingham, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Nation Building & Estate Infrastructure Development, Major General Lalith Abeygunawardana, Director General, Presidential Secretariat and Jeff Taft-Dick, Representative & Country Director of WFP Sri Lanka were present.

This assistance will be implemented through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

The first consignment - a shipment carrying 422 tonnes of rice arrived at the Colombo Port on April 9 and the first dispatch from the shipment has been delivered to the displaced in Batticaloa.