Housing for disabled migrant workers
Rasika Somarathna
Sri Lankan migrants who return home with permanent disabilities due
to work related injuries are provided free housing facilities by the Sri
Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE).
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Newly wedded couple entering their new house at Kuliyapitiya.
SLBFE chairman Kingsly Ranawaka is also in the picture. |
Twenty six permanently disabled migrant worker returnees have
received free houses.
Chathurika Nadeeshani of Kuliyapitiya who was permanently disabled
while working as a domestic aide in Jordan received a house recently.
Last week, at an auspicious time, she entered her new aboard not
alone but with her new husband, M.A.S. Amarakoon, a soldier of the Sri
Lanka Army, whom she wedded on the same day.
The duo had met at the Ragama hospital while they were receiving
treatment for injuries received, one at her work place in Jordan and the
other in the battlefield in the north while defending the motherland.
The wedding was sponsored by the SLBFE. |
