What an amazing facility @IndiraCToffical has built for kids undergoing cancer treatment at Maharagama. “It’s a happy place” says totally committed @LankaJayasuriy1 and staff! It sure is I saw n spoke to kids and parents. Congratulations! Note: it runs on donations, so, do help!
Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant on Pan Am Flight 73 when it was hijacked in Pakistan by Palestinian terrorists on September 5, 1986. She helped the pilots escape, saved American passengers from execution, and opened the emergency door so hundreds could jump to safety. Ultimately, she was killed while shielding three children from gunfire.
Twenty-two-year-old Indian air hostess Neerja Bhanot was always a woman of courage and convictions. Despite the traditions of her culture and her family's protests, she left her arranged marriage when her husband proved abusive. Then she struck out on her own and began working as both a model and a flight attendant for Pan Am. But shortly after she began her new career in the skies, disaster struck when a flight she was working was hijacked by four terrorists in 1986. Though she was new to the job, she proved to be the greatest hero of the entire ordeal. Over the course of 17 harrowing hours, she helped both the pilots and hundreds of passengers to escape. In the end, she was killed while using her body to protect three children from gunfire.
Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery from India, Pakistan, and the United States. And one of the children she saved grew up to be a pilot himself and credited Bhanot for his decision.
"The help given to us by ICT is very valuable"
Indira Cancer Trust’s ambitious project, SUWA ARANA will open its doors on the 29th of June, to care for little ones like this.
Suwa Arana – A Place For Healing
This gentleman has been in the cinnamon industry for the past 50+ years and knows a cinnamon bark like the back of his hand. But, it’s his story that is amazing.
He lives by himself on one of the islands located on Madu Ganga lake. He believes that cinnamon can help cure a variety of different ailments, and credits cinnamon for keeping him fit and agile at a ripe old age of 81. But, what truly amazed me was his adaptation.
Once he realized that foreigners loved to visit Madu Ganga, and wanted to know more about cinnamon, he took it upon himself to prepare a “session” of sorts that gives anyone a lot of valuable information about cinnamon cultivation and the spice itself. He first welcomes you with a steaming hot cup of cinnamon tea (which tastes amazing), then shows you different types of cinnamon barks; how they are dried in the traditional way; and finally skillfully scrapes of a bark to show how cinnamon is made.
He is paid by the boat operators who bring groups of tourists to his little mini island. In addition to that, he also sells small packs of cinnamon, and other tiny cinnamon based souvenirs. He also makes money through tips that foreigners leave him after the session is over.
Since he has started doing these demonstrations over 15 years ago, he is now able to converse in 7 languages! Such an inspiring story, and I strive to be as passionate and dedicated as this individual is to cinnamon, to everything I do.
Suwa Arana -- Sri Lanka’s First Pediatric Palliative Care Centre, aims to be a place for
healing of many children afflicted with cancer in the country.
This iconic, first-of-its-kind project will open its doors on June 29th.
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Get out your walking shoes and meet us at Independence Square tomorrow, Sunday June 4. The Registration Desk will be open from 3pm for those who haven't been able to pledge online.
Info: Shyamila (+94) 777-354-686