S’pore Buddhist Research Society, Red Cross hand over tsunami houses

The Red Cross Society in Singapore and the Buddhist Research Society there will hand more than 150 newly-constructed houses together with a new playground and a community hall to tsunami victims in Singhapura, Maithreegama, Siribopura and Hambantota.

The handover will take place on Tuesday to coincide with the second anniversary of Sri Lanka’s worst ever natural disaster which killed 31,000 people. The completion of the housing project which was supervised by the Bellanwila Raja Maha Vihara, is an initiative taken by Ven. Bellanwila Dhammaratana Nayaka Thera, adviser to the Buddhist Research Society of Singapore and Chief Incumbent, Bellanwila Raja Maha Viharaya.

Agriculture Development Minister Chamal Rajapaksa will be the chief guest at the ceremony. Recipients of the new houses are also to be given furniture and other household items at the ceremony.