Free houses for disabled migrant workers

by Ananda KANNANGARA

The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) will allocate Rs.16 million every two years to provide free housing facilities to Sri Lankan migrant workers who become paralysed or face similar disabilities while employed in foreign countries.

The housing units are constructed under the Sahana Diriya housing construction program, initiated by the Bureau recently.

The Bureau has already constructed and presented nine houses to disabled migrant workers who arrived in the country before their employment contracts were completed.

Bureau Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka told the Sunday Observer that construction work on another 33 houses has already commenced and will be handed over to deserving disabled recipients before December this year.

He said each house was constructed after perusing the medical reports of the recipients and they were built according to the nature of the disability of each person.