Dialog subscribers help provide homes to Aranayake landslide victims
View(s):Through generous donations channelled from Dialog subscribers, tripled in value through a donation by Dialog Axiata and further supplemented by support in civil construction services from the tri-forces enabled the handing of the “Senehe Siyapatha” Senehase Gammanaya consisting 30 houses to victims of the Aranayake landslide, in the Kegalle District.
The homes were ceremoniously handed over by Gayantha Karunathilake, Minister of Parliament Reforms and Mass Media; Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Minister of Disaster Management; Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, Minister of Power and Renewable Energy; Ruwan Wijewardene, State Minister of Defence; Karunarathna Paranawithana, Deputy Minister of Parliament Reforms and Mass Media; Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Secretary, Ministry of Defence; Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Regional Chief Executive – South Asia, Axiata Group; Supun Weerasinghe, Group Chief Executive, Dialog Axiata PLC; Chandrasiri Bandara, District Secretary/GA, Kagalle District Secretariat; Z.A.M. Faizal, Divisional Secretary of Aranayake; Lalith Dissanayake, Joint Chairman, Coordinating Committee, Aranayaka and Nimal Jayasinghe, Joint Chairman, Coordinating Committee, Aranayake.
‘Senehe Siyapatha’ is an initiative by the Ministry of Parliament Reforms and Mass Media, Ministry of Defence, Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd and the Disaster Management Centre. The houses were constructed as per specifications given by the NBRO (National Building Research Organisation).