Visit of Dr. Lars Dunberg

Dr. Lars Dunberg, founder and International President of Global Action, a humanitarian organisation based in Colorado Springs, USA, will visit Sri Lanka from May 15 to 19. He is scheduled to meet with several government ministers and officials and will travel to Moratuwa and Galle where the Sri Lanka branch of Global Action has carried out many projects.

He will open Global Action's free tuition and computer centre and vocational training centre in Moratuwa and lay the foundation stone to start building 110 houses for affected families in Moratuwa and Galle.

Global Action recently donated over Rs. 70 million worth hospital and medical equipment to the Karapitiya hospital through the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Welfare. Other projects include the provision of school books to tsunami affected children in Moratuwa, Galle, Wattala, Trincomalee and Kalmunai, the Micro Enterprise Rehabilitation Project that assists tsunami-affected people to start their lives afresh, the maintenance of 10 day-care centres for 500 tsunami affected children in Galle and a centre for tsunami affected disabled children in Moratuwa.

Global Action works in association with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and local government bodies and is headed in Sri Lanka by Lal N. Withanage.