Hindu-Buddhist Assn to donate shoes to 100 Jaffna schoolchildren

Priyanka KURUGALA

The Hindu-Buddhist Association’s Sri Lanka branch has made arrangements to donate shoes and socks to 100 selected schoolchildren in Jaffna, Hindu Buddhist Association coordinator Arulnesaratnam Ravikumar told the Daily News.

The event will coincide with a felicitation ceremony of Most Ven Atambagaskada Saddharma Keerthi Sri Sumana Siddhartha today at the Nagavihara temple in Jaffna.

The felicitation ceremony has been organized by the Security Forces headquarters, Jaffna to honour the new appointment of Ven Atambagaskada Saddharma Keerthi Sri Sumana Siddhartha as the Deputy Chief Incumbent of the Northern Province, he said. International Hindu Buddhist Association President T Logeswaran allocated funds for the programme, he said.

He emphasized that, the Hindu-Buddhist Association is taking measures to build up harmony between Buddhists and Hindus countrywide. The programme is one in a series of events to honour the new deputy chief incumbent.