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By Saroj Pathirana
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image captionRanaweera Arachchilage Yasawathi received one photo of Jagath after his adoption and remains desperate to find him
Thousands of Sri Lankan babies were put up for adoption between the 1960s and 1980s - some of them sold by baby farms to prospective parents across Europe. The Netherlands, which accepted many of those infants, has recently suspended international adoptions following historical allegations of coercion and bribery. As that investigation unfolds, families who never stopped thinking about the children who vanished hope they will be reunited.
Indika Waduge remembers the red car driving off with his mother and sister, Nilanthi, inside. He and his other sister Damayanthi stayed at home and waited for their mother to return. When she came back the next day, she was alone.
Posted on March 7th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Philip Gunawardene was the creator of the
Multipurpose Cooperatives Society. Until
1956, the cooperatives had been single purpose ones. There were separate cooperatives for
food distribution, for savings and loan disbursement.
There were about 10,500 of cooperatives and they were of 70 different types. Philip
decided to weld them into one organization, the Multipurpose Cooperative Society. By 1958 a fair number of Multipurpose
Cooperatives were formed, others were converted. There was terrific enthusiasm
on the part of the public, said Meegama
The village level Multi-purpose Cooperative was a small unit and it would have to
depend on the private sector for its stock. Therefore Multipurpose
150 COVID-19 cases reported from Avissawella 28 Dec 2020
More than 500 return from overseas
Isolation of Maradana, Keselwatta and Dam Street Police areas and Wekanda, Hunupitiya GS Division in Slave Island, Mayura Place in Wellawatta, Halgahawatta and Kalipullawatta in Borella and Laksanda Housing scheme in Wellampitiya removed at 5 a.m. today
Several GS divisions in Eheliyagoda and Godakawela isolated
By Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya
While isolation of several areas in Colombo have been removed from this morning, a total of 150 COVID-19 cases were identified from Avissawella alone on Saturday, from the 235 cases that were reported in the
Colombo District.
According to the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak, a total of 598 people had been confirmed COVID-19 positive during 24 hours that ended on Saturday night and the majority of the cases were reported in Avissawella.