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Rose Lanka team rushes to assist nearby landslide disaster victims

sri-landslide14Rose Lanka Micro credit and Rose Charities Sri Lanka have been working on a Project  in Hopton Village, Lunugala, Badulla District since the beginning of this year 2014.  The above Koslanda  land slide happened  near our  project area in the same District.

On 29.10.2014 at 7.30 am,   the above Land slide happened after heavy monsoon rains, engulfed about 140 houses in Badulla District. 302 bodies  were found up to now and believed more than 100 people missing as per information given by the Disaster Management Ministry, Srilanka.

Bad weather is also hampering the rescue operations. Also there is still  a threat of further land slide and a group of 500 Army and Air force personal are assisting  with rescue operations.

More that100 people are still missing.   Some school children were in the school during this time and they are safe but  many children became orphans. Some husbands lost their wives, children and family members.  Most of the houses  and Temples have been buried in   09 Meter(30’) in Mud. Affected  people are in School Refugee camps and urgently  in need of   cloth,food,water,milk food for infants etc.

Rose Lanka Micro Credit Managing Director and staff had an urgent meeting with all staff of Rose Charities Srilanka and decided to collect some  cloth, food items etc. from our members and public to help the Land slide refugees.

Donations gratefully accepted (Donations page)  (please write ‘Srilanka landslide’ in the ‘additional comment’s box on the donation page)

 

Thank you to the Rose Charities Sri Lanka Team

DSC07568Vancouver, Canada.  1st February 2014

To Anthony Richard, Rajeeshan Shanmugalingam   and the whold Rose Sri Lanka Team, 

On behalf of Rose Charities International and of myself I would like to extend our very grateful  appreciation for your magnificent staging of the 6th Rose Charities International Conference from 24 to 26th January 2014 at Kalmunai.    The events were wonderfully organized and offered the international delegates  both a wonderful forum for discussion in and an opportunity to learn first hand of the impressive spectrum of projects developed and organized by Rose Charities Sri Lanka.

It is impossible to over emphasize how impressed we are with the work  of the Rose Sri Lanka team . You organization brings great pride to the whole Rose network and remains as one of its foremost  project foci  leading the way in so many areas and setting reference points from which projects in other countries can lean. Your dedication, drive and energy have, and continue to be inspirational and your planning and organization superb.  This was extended to the Rose Vl Conference and th parallel commemoration of last 10 years of amazing work.

Now, with the even recently over we are left with the most wonderful memories and impressions of so many aspects of Kalmunai and the projects and operations of Rose Charities Sri Lanka.   And those memories will last for many many years into the future .

So bravo and thank you to you all.  In a world where there is so much need  your team of Rose Charities Sri Lanka  has provide a light of hope for so many.    For this we join with so many you have helped,  in laudation and gratitude.

Yours sincerely

William Grut.  MD.

(Rose Charities International  Executive Secretary )

 

VIBE Center ready to open..

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The Vancouver Board of Trade in conjunction with Rose Charities Sri Lanka has built an education and technology center for the town of Kalmunai.  After the 2004 tsunami a fund was established by the Vancouver Board of Trade and the funds collected donated to Rose Charities Sri Lanka to help with and augment their community programs

The decision was made by Rose Charities Sri Lanka Program Director Dr Yoga Yogendran, in conjunction with Mr Frank Borowicz, Governor of the Vancouver Board of Trade, to found the facility. The VIBE Center will be one of the first international facilities of its kind and will be equipped with the technology to enable people in remote rural communities to engage in on-line learning and knowledge management through the VIBE e-learning portal, in conjunction with the local Chamber of Commerce. It will also be on of the first learning centers through which a unique new kind of on-line specialized English language training developed by “KnowledgeOne”  (a Vancouver group) will be made available.

The formal opening of the VIBE Center will be at the end of November.

Rose Charities Sri Lanka was registered in Sri Lanka following initial emergency relief,  medical and counseling  teams were sent from Canada.   Mr Anthony Richards,  now Chief Executiver Director of Rose Charities Sri Lanka traveled to Sri Lanka from Canada with the first emergency team and has devoted his life ever since to the building up of Rose Charities Sri Lanka. Projects now include, education, health, peace-sports, micro-credit, income generation and community development. The VIBE Center will be a huge step forward for the Kalmunai Community, one of the worst affected by the tsunami in Sri Lanka