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The Foreign Ministry last week handed one hundred housing units to tsunami victims in Moradawila. The units were built using funds collected by the Ministry and Sri Lankan Missions abroad. According to a communiqué immediately after the tsunami disaster, December 2004, the Ministry requested its Missions abroad to raise funds and material towards reconstructing the damaged infrastructure and to contribute towards bringing back to normal the lives of the affected people. Over Rs. 800 million was raised and utilized to construct 856 housing units in four Districts in the worst affected areas in the South and the East, in Galle, Modarawila (Kalutara district), Trincomalee and Ampara. The Ministry states that the original plan of 1200 units had to be curtailed to 856 and that work is expected to be completed by the end of the year, as directed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Construction is done with the assistance of the Urban Development Authority, a Consortium of state owned corporations and RADA. The housing project was launched April 28, 2005 at Walahanduwa in Galle by the late Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar and Minister of Urban Development and Water Supply Dinesh Gunawardena. Fifty (50) units of these houses have already been handed over to the recipients and are occupied.
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