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The KASTDA Fund has made an excellent start in its first two years of existence.
Just weeks after being set up, a volunteer group of members from Kent was already working to help the devastated communities in Sri Lanka.
The group visited orphanages in Sri Lanka on fact-finding missions to see how best they could help, and have now set up permanent links with orphans.
Maskeeda Downing, Champa Chapman & the Fund’s first President, Chris Perera, forged links with two orphanages and met the nuns running them.
The fact-finding group agreed to release KASTDA funds to help 164 children aged between 7-15 years old, and the funding was delivered by Ranjith Sumathipala when he visited the area, which is near Columbo, in late March 2005.
Here are the projects, which are all financed through KASTDA fund-raising Events in the UK. |
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| “Some of those now in greatest need of assistance are the children left orphaned as entire families have been lost.
It is inevitable that, even after a tragedy of this scale, world interest and the focus of the media moves on as people re-build their own lives or face their own problems. That is why it is so important that KASTDA seeks to maintain the focus of attention on the orphaned children of the Tsunami and tries to ensure that not just their present but their future is provided for.” | |
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