UK BUSINESSMEN LINE UP TO BUILD HOUSES FOR VALIANT SOLDIERS BY CEREMONIALLY INAUGURATING API WENUWEN API IN UK
Chanaka Olagama presenting the air tickets for the artists
( By Walter Jayawardhana)
The United Kingdom based Sri Lankan expatriate businessmen lined up to support Sri Lanka Defence Ministry sponsored “Api Wenuwen Api” - 50,000 housing units project for the disabled as well as active soldiers fighting for the integrity of the country.
The UK based businessmen showed their solidarity with Sri Lanka’s fighting men when Api Wenuwen Api United Kingdom project was ceremonially launched at the Sri Lanka High Commission in Hyde Park Gardens in London.
C reating high hopes among the movers of the Api Wenuwen Api United Kingdom unit to collect 100,000 British Pounds for the project a leading expatriate businessman, Sam Chandrasinghe donated 10,000 British Pounds out of the 20,000 he has pledged at the ceremonial inauguration.
Chandrasena said , that he was extremely happy to be part of a movement to help the soldiers who are ready to lay their lives for the motherland.
Sam Chandrasena , the owner of the renown business Sam’s Chicken outlets all over London presented his cheque for the fund to Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe , the Defense Advisor of London’s Sri Lanka High Commission who accepted it on behalf of the Ministry of Defense , Sri Lanka.
Chanaka Olagama the country manager of Sri Lanka Air Lines donated 25 return tickets to bring performing artists from Sri Lanka to participate in three Sri Lankan musical and cultural shows to be held in London, Birmingham and Manchester to raise funds for the same cause in September.
At the ceremony Suranja Thilakarane of he Wembley Guest House handed over a letter of pledge to accommodate the Sri Lankan artists of shows for ten days when they arrive in London, next September .
Major N.L.C. Perera (retired) who had served the Sri Lanka Army and led the Ceylon Cadet battalion Contingent in the first independence day parade in Colombo and who had served the country for 26 years was the guest of honour at the ceremony who sold the first raffle ticket to the Sri Lanka High Commissioner in London, Mrs. Kshenuka Seniwiratne.
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe thanked Dushmantha Wijekoon and Amal Weerasinghe or constructing a web site for UK based Api wenuwen Api .Dash Goonewardene, the Managing Director of Paradise Travels for sponsoring the printing collateral including raffle tickets and Rohan and Indika Jayasena of Prestige Creations for creating the logo free of charge for the movement..
Bigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said already 1620 houses under the project are nearing completion at Ipologama Anuradhapura . He said the UK raised money will be exclusively spent for the second phase of the project which would include schools, shopping complexes and a gymnasium,health facilities etc. to be built near Horowpatana.
( go2lanka.com)
