Newsletter October to November 2020
15th November 2020
When you are a blessed a little extra, raise someone who needs a little extra.
House for Somasiri and his Family
Our dearest monthly givers, together we did it. Somasiri and his family were living in a house built with clay, hoping for days without rain because the roof had holes. Somasiri is a daily wage earner, he tries his very best to get some form of food on the table for a family of five. A house for them was a dream which is now a dream come true. Together we were able to give Somasiri and his family hope, to keep dreaming and strive for a better future.
With the help from our volunteer, Udayanga for the execution and your generous monthly contribution we built a house within one month at a cost of Rs. 275000.
For Somasiri and his family you are the blessing sent from up above
Helping our Sri Lankans to get through these difficult times
COVID Relief – Food Pack Distribution 1
Date : 11/3/2020 & 11/6/2020
Contribution: Packs for 50 Families
Total Contribution: Rs. 120000 ($666)
Volunteer: Jeevan
Location: Ranawana, Kannimahara, Warapalana, Aththanagalla, Walgammulla, Pugoda, Weliweriya, haranayakapura
Most of these people are daily workers who have no source of income now and people who are under quarantine due to being street vendors so we left the packs outside their homes. We partnered with out volunteer Jeevan to distribute food packs to 50 families
COVID Relief – Food Pack Distribution 2
Date : 11/7/2020 and 11/9/2020
Contribution: 50 Family packs
Total Contribution: Rs. 160000 ($888)
Volunteer: Pramila
Location: Waskaduwa, Wadduwa, Galpatha, Dediyawela, and Kalutara
We partnered with our volunteer Pramila to distribute food packs to fisherman and people living on daily wage. Most of these families live across the ocean. Another set of families' earnings are based on cleaning houses, plucking coconuts, working as laborers and day jobs. With the current condition, most of them are struggling even to have one meal per day. They were ecstatic to see these packs of essentials to keep them going until they can get back to their jobs.
COVID Relief – Food Pack Distribution 3
Date : 11/14/2020
Contribution: 20 Packs
Total Contribution: Rs. 50000 ($277)
Volunteer: Jeevan
Location: Aluthgama, Bandaragama, Banbaranayakapura, Kiriwana, Polhena, Tharala Wasama
We partnered with our Volunteer Jeevan to distribute to areas that had a lot of COVID impact and high exposure. Most of these families have financial difficulties and special conditions where they are single moms, pregnant moms, families with disabilities and older people, people on day jobs or no income.
COVID Relief – PPE KITS
Date : 11/3/2020
Distribution: 50 PPE KITS
Total Contribution: Rs. 40000 ($222)
Volunteer: Oshadhi
Location: Grandpass, Columbo Raise
Sri Lanka in partnership with our volunteer contributed 50 PPE Kits for our Health Professionals so that they could do their work diligently. These health professionals risk their life day in an out to help another human to overcome the biggest threat to the modern world. This is the least that we could do
COVID Relief – Vegetables Distribution
Date : 11/13/2020
Contribution: Vegetable Packs for 400 Families
Total Contribution: Rs. 60000 ($333)
Volunteer: Sriranthana Himi
Location: Peliyagoda, Ja-Ela, Wattala, Sapugaskanda
We were able to help 400 selected families from all races/ religions who cannot find meals with vegetable packs donations. May this gesture help them and their families stay away from hunger for a week or more until things settle down and they can go out and find work. For this initiative Srirantha Himi (???) and the Sri Lankan Police partnered with us.