SINGAPORE : Donations from Singaporeans to the worst-hit country
Sri Lanka have been pouring in at the High Commission's
premises.
Supplies for Sri Lanka's victims have overflowed to the extent that
the ground floor of Goldhill Plaza has been converted into a
storage and packing area, with hardly any space to walk.
Besides ordinary Singaporeans, hotels too got into the act donating
old linen, blankets and towels for the Sri Lankan victims.
Mr Ranjith Gunaratna, Sri Lankan High Commission, said: "We would
like to request not to send us used clothes. If they can send us
some food and medicines, and food items for children as well as
tinned food, it will be most useful.
"We have already sent some medicines from Singapore hospitals,
$50,000 worth of medicines, we have already despatched them to Sri
Lanka."
The High Commission said it was touched by the outpouring of help
rendered by Singaporeans.
Ms Catherine La Jeunesse, a volunteer, said: "There are so many
things that have been donated and they have no one to pack them and
sort them. So all these people have just shown up to pack these
things to send to Sri Lanka."
More than 10,000 kilogrammes of emergency supplies - like mineral
water, rice and instant noodles - were carefully packed before
being flown to Colombo by Sri Lankan Airlines.
Meanwhile, SembCorp Environmental Management says it is also making
arrangements to collect donations from Singaporeans.
Residents served by the company need only pack the items in boxes
and leave them outside their homes, and SembCorp's network of 100
men will collect them. - CNA
Even garbage company also helping