Yang Wei, the site project manager of Attanagalla water plant said that his staff had donated a truck load of relief supplies, including food and daily necessities to the affected villagers in Yabaraluwa, in western Sri Lanka.
Wei said that CMEC had been actively fulfilling the corporate social responsibility of the local community and following the devastating disaster. CMEC had purchased immediate relief supplies to distribute among the victims.
“CMEC will make every effort to participate in the disaster relief, and work together with the Sri Lankan people to tide over this crisis,” Wei said.
CMEC had provided timely help, and provided materials for the resettlement of the villagers. This is the first-time villagers received donations from a foreign country following the disaster, R.M.K.C Rathnayake, the head of Yabaraluwa village said.
“Thanks to the relief provided by CMEC, we will soon be able to get back to our normal livelihoods. China is a true friend of Sri Lanka,” Rathnayake added.
The Yabaraluwa village is located about 20 km east of Colombo, near the fourth longest river in Sri Lanka - the Kelani River.
Among the 750 houses in the village, an estimated 350 houses were damaged by the floods while more than 1,500 people were affected.
-Xinhua
-Agencies
