Today’s children, tomorrow’s leaders – Minister Kumaratunga
by Mohammed Naalir
Terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent children of this
country. Their lives were lost at a time when they were just starting on
a long journey in their lives. The gap caused by the departure of those
children has to be filled, Postal Services Minister Jeevan Kumaratunga
said recently.
He was addressing an event organised by the Jeevan Kumaratunga
Foundation along with Piyasena Senaratne at the Moratuwa Bauddha
Mandiraya to provide 500 pregnant women with essential baby care items.
Today’s children are the future leaders and intellectuals of this
country, he said.
The Minister said the baby care items were presented to pregnant
women to honour them and as a gift to the babies who are to be born
soon. “Mothers have a duty to sow a sense of patriotism in the minds of
babies when they are growing,” he said. The Minister also paid gratitude
to the Armed Forces personnel who sacrificed their lives to liberate
Mother Lanka from the clutches of terrorism.
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