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Singer helps clean wells of tsunami victims
Consumer durables company Singer (Sri Lanka) Ltd and the firms in its group have been helping tsunami victims and declared January 4 and January 6 as 'Tsunami Shramadana Day' as part of its corporate social responsibility activities.

Singer deployed service teams in three units of seven each who worked throughout last weekend to clean up to 50 wells at private homes in Paiyagala and Kalutara, company officials said.

Singer chairman Hemaka Amarasuriya too visited some of these homes and found them covered with mud, slime and refuse dumped by the sea. "At least they now have clean water," a company official said.

Singer also continues to support the Weligama refugee camp and also adopted the refugee camp at Madampe, a village off Ambalangoda. The camp is in a temple on a hill with close to a thousand displaced people.

They need pillows, mats, sheets, drinking water, dry rations, milk packs for children, and clothing. Singer also plans to adopt camps in the east. The company also has been sending lorry loads of essential supplies to specified locations.

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