{"id":1567,"date":"2026-05-21T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:40:15","slug":"belgian-sri-lankan-association-donates-e17600-to-rebuilding-sri-lanka-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/21\/belgian-sri-lankan-association-donates-e17600-to-rebuilding-sri-lanka-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Sri Lankan Association Donates \u20ac17,600 to \u2018Rebuilding Sri Lanka\u2019 Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan Association in Belgium has donated 17,600 Euros to the \u2018Rebuilding Sri Lanka\u2019 Fund established to restore the livelihoods of people affected by Cyclone Ditwah and to support the reconstruction of disaster-hit areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the donation was officially handed over on the 19th at the Presidential Secretariat by the Vice President of the Sri Lankan Association in Belgium, Nimal Jayakody, to the Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be utilized for the reconstruction work of the Gammadhu Tamil Maha Vidyalayam in Matale, which was damaged due to Cyclone Ditwah.<\/p>\n<p>This contribution was coordinated through Matale District Member of Parliament Dinesh Hemantha Perera, with support from the Sri Lankan Association in Belgium, Sri Lankans living in Belgium, and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Matale District MP Dinesh Hemantha Perera and Sri Lankan Association in Belgium member Tharanga Subashini also attended the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan Association in Belgium has donated 17,600 Euros to the \u2018Rebuilding Sri Lanka\u2019 Fund established to restore the livelihoods of people affected by Cyclone Ditwah and to support the reconstruction of disaster-hit areas in the country. Accordingly, the donation was officially handed over on the 19th at the Presidential Secretariat by the Vice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}