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CHRISTMAS MARKET
on Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, Deccember 11th
from 1 to 6 p.m.
in 3413 Kirchbach, Oberkirchbacherstraße 11
Brigitte und Anton Enzelsberger
(in the Vienna Woods, 17 km from town)
Food and beverages (punch), sledge rides for kids, Christmas Horn Blowers, high quality craftworks by local artists and - - most important - at the stall of www.vienna-srlanka.org you' ll find cards for Christmas and New Year' s wishes, gift tags, boxes and small gifts, all handmade.
The net profit will flow into our "Vienna - Sri Lanka Dhamma Educational Foundation for Children" project.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Click here for MS Autoroute file
October 2005
We are happy to announce, that Ravi Rupasena succeeded in Sri Lanka in a marathon to find a way establishing finally our project. For obtaining the necessary authorizations it is necessary to obtain a local NGO-status. Ravi was able to build up a committee consisting of
a priest, Rev. Panakawe Premarathana,they will act as local links to the Ministry for Women and Social Affairs.
a lawyer, Mr. Ariyadasa Samarappulige and
a medical doctor, Mr. Chandana Batugedara
Ravi rented one floor of a two-storey-house in a village called Makola-Kiribathgoda, 12 kms inlands in direction to Kandy. This floor will now be adapted and furnished within the next months.
He has chosen seven boys aged 10 to 12 years from a crowd of more than thirty applicants in Ampara (South of Batticaloa), at the East coast of Sri Lanka. They will start to move in our house, when it is ready (planned for January 2006), and live there permanently, looked after by the staff employed and will visit Damma School to study until they reach A-levels at the age of 18 years.
Most of the Tsunami-orphans found shelter at their families and relatives - as the officials told Ravi. The regulations for adoption and children care were drastically changed, so we decided to follow this educational programme to help children and their families. As otherwise they would not be able to go to school, get proper education and find better opportunities for their future lifes.
Therefore we also had to change the name of our project.
Now we started to follow our vision and hope, you will go on supporting us.
Venerable Panakawe Saddharmakeerthi Sri Dheerananda Pemaratana Nayaka Thero,
The Buddhist Monk who is in charge of the Children Home in Sri Lanka
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Message of Venerable Panakawe Saddharmakeerthi Sri Dheerananda Pemaratana Nayaka Thero The Chief Incumbent and the Principal, justice of Peace for all Island Deputy chief Sanghanayaka for Colombo Nawakoralaya and Nawathotamuna Sudharmarama Maha Viharaya, Tambiligasmulla, Makola, Sri Lanka |
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As a third world country, Sri Lanka has many families living with financial constraints in rural areas around the country. Due to their economical status even just providing the basic needs of the children's parents having difficulties to send their children to the school. In order to help some of the poor children of these families, attain a better future, Ravi and generous donors from Austria have established this project. Since then, we have opened the " Vienna-Sri Lanka Dhamma Educational Foundation for Children". Dr.Chandhana Batugedhara and Lawyer Ariyadasa Samarappulige both from Sri Lanka are providing their assistance and kind support to this project. I kindly invite you all to join us to expand this worthy project. |
16.5.2005
Fax from Mrs. Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa (the Prime Minister's Office)
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27.01.2005
During the recent holiday-week I received an e-mail from Mr. Mag. Alexander Winter (Schenker Transports), in which he offered to take over our relief-goods and move the container, offered by Mr. Norbert Wowy (Hapag Lloyd Vienna), to Hamburg harbor. He had heard from our needs by Mr. Mag. Andreas Demmer, the Managing Director of the Forwarding Agents' Association. I sent him the list, which I had received from Mr. Michael Penitz/Hapag Lloyd and Mr. Winter issued all the necessary papers, which was a great relief for me.
Ravi will take care of the container loading here in Vienna on Thursday, February 17th, the collected goods are kept in Vienna`s 3rd and 10th district plus a lot of medicines sitting at the airport. All that will be brought by Schenker to their stores at Vienna Danube harbor. The Hapag Lloyd container will be loaded and freighted to Hamburg port. With that actions, the huge stone, resting on our hearts since weeks, will be removed. All that, which has been donated by many people who wanted to help the Tsunami-victims, will finally reach its point of destination - surely not too late, as informations from Sri Lanka tell us.. What a great Valentine's Day! |
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Fax from the Prime Minister's Office Mrs. Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa. |
