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Dear Friends,
Help Rebuild Devastated Sri Lankan Villages!
Wheaton IBS-Vidyalankara Development Fund
The International Buddhist Center in Wheaton, Maryland invites you to join in an important project. Help! Rebuild tsunami devastated Sri Lankan villages.
A simple one room cottage with kitchen and bath can be built for approximately US$1000. As our first project, we will rebuild a village of 100 families in the hard hit Hambantota District on the south east coast of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government will donate land a safe distance from the beach. The project was mentioned by Michel Dobbs in his Washington post column January 7, and in my interview on NPR’s Morning Edition the same day.
We are working with the prestigious Vidyalankara Pirivena center in Sri Lanka, and intend to personally deliver and monitor the progress of the project.
The local Board of Trustees for this project includes the former chancellor of the Buddhist University of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Elections Commissioner, the Director of the Sri Lankan Customs Service, a Catholic Diocesan Priest and a respected business leader.
Michel Dobbs wrote that major aid efforts “can and should be supplemented by other more personal networks built around direct ties between communities here and communities in the disaster affected areas. That way we can associate names and faces with the people we are trying to help, and have a built in accountability mechanism to track what happens to our money.
K. Uparatana Nayaka Thero
President and Abbot
Buddhist Chaplain, American University
Donations may be made out to:
International Buddhist Center Reconstruction Fund
2600 Elmont Street
Silver Spring, MD20902
(301) 946 9437
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