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December 21, 2006: Chairman's message on Squatters on the Property
We are pleased to report that all of the 21 families who had been the
illegal squatters of the land that was donated by Amarasinghe Brothers
to
build the orphanage, after legal proceedings, have accepted a very
kind
and generous offer presented to them by the Amarasinghe brothers, for
them
to receive five perch each for a family of the adjacent land owned by
the Amarasinghe Brothers. With this event now that we are free to go
forward with building the orphanage for Tsunami Orphans.
Regards
Dula Amarasinghe
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Background:
The Sri Lanka Orphanage Fund has been established to build and operate a children village in Galle, Sri Lanka,
one of the areas worst affected by the Tsunami of December 26th 2004. When
completed, the facility will care for two hundred children.
The Amarasinghe brothers have initiated the
project and have given a lead gift of ten acres of land in the village of
Panagamuwa, Galle, Sri Lanka, on which the children’s village will be built.
In the initial phase of the project, T. D. Amarasinghe has agreed to donate the use of his near by ten bedroom
home to house the first group
of orphans while the cottages are being built. Upon completion, the orphans
will be transferred to their new cottages, and in turn, they will be replaced
by additional children orphaned by the 2004 tsunami until the children’s
village has been fully constructed.
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The chairman of the Sri Lanka Orphange Fund featured in New York Newsday Article about his efforts to have the orphanage started.
Entrance to orphanage
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