A special treat for 20 children at Singithi Sevena, a home for orphans or abandoned children. They were given a special meal as well as chocolates and other goodies creating much happiness and for an enjoyable day.

Donated a month’s worth of dry rations to 20 families in Loolwatte, in the Knuckles region.

Donated school shoes and socks to 74 school children in Meemure, a very remote village in the Central Province, for use in the new school year.

Donated stationery worth and other school related items to 30 poor children in Meewathura school before the start of the new school term.

Joined with the “Sleeping Children Around the World” Association of Canada and the Rotary Club of Kelaniya to give 611 school children from 11 schools in the Hunasgiriya area bedding, as well as school shoes and socks, school bags and books. Biscuits and milk for all 611 children and snacks for helpers were also provided.

Marking the International Day of the Girl Child an artificial limb is donated annually to a girl through the Center for Handicapped. The recipient of the limb this year was nine-year-old Dimalshi, who was born with a congenital deformity and who needs her artificial limb replaced each year as she outgrows the previous one.

IIW President Trish Douglas presented a new artificial limb to Mrs. Devakumari, who lost a limb in an accident in 2013, met with new limb-users, currently staying at the Center while they become accustomed to their prostheses, and was entertained by members of the Jolly Youngster’s Club set up by the Centre for Children with…