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Tsunami affected employees receive houses by D. A. Wijewardene MAS holdings took a bold decision to help tsunami affected employees of our company. Within 7 months time, MAS holdings built 19 houses and handed them over to 19 employees who were severely affected by the tsunami, said MAS INTIMATE Managing Director Dian Gomes at a handing over ceremony of 19 houses to 19 MAS employees held in Habaraduwa on September 29. Gomes said that after the tsunami struck we promised that we would never come to the Koggala area without building new houses for the affected employees. He also said that it was the wish of the MAS INTIMATE to help the affected employees and the MAS last two employees attached to the Koggala branch. He said that the MAS group had around 30,000 employees who had been a tower of strength behind the successful operation of the company. Building houses for the tsunami affected employees was a unique example set by the MAs group, stressed Gomes. Gomes also said that each house comprised 10 perches and consisted of 681 sq,ft worth of 8 lakhs. He said that all the houses included all modern conveniences. MAS Intimate Chairman Mahesh Amaliyan said that it was Dian Gomes who informed him about the devastation. He said that the MAS Intimate took immediate relief measures to help tsunami-affected by distributing clothes and essential food items to the affected and added that almost all employees in the company came forward to carry out relief operations just after tsunami struck Koggala, Habaraduwa areas. He said that the MAS Intimate had already allocated Rs. 150 million to construct around 100 houses in Hikkaduwa, Galagodawatta and the construction work was in the process. When asked about the quick completion of 19 houses, Amaliyan said that the most important resource of any nation was its human resource and when human beings got united they could perform even were miracles. Referring to the other construction work completed by the MAS Intimate Chairman Amaliyan said that besides the construction of 19 houses at Tittagalla in Habaraduwa area a well-equipped science laboratory, a Playground and two-storeyed class rooms had also been constructed at Habaraduwa, Katukurunda Dhammika Vidyalaya. He said that it was a magnanimous gesture of Saralee Corporation in the United States which volunteered and to construct this school. He also noted that in addition to the present construction, some of the building that was destroyed had been restored for the benefit of students in Habaraduwa area. According to Amaliyan, another school building worth Rs. 4.5 million will also be constructed by Instead Organisation before the end of December 2005. |
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