Colonel Manatunga Pays us a Visit

When GAF visited Sri Lanka last summer, we met with over a dozen local and international organizations working with the disabled community here.  From these, we identified three potential partners that we can collaborate with to implement our projects.  The first of these organizations is the army rehabilitation hospital at Ragama.  Every soldier at this facility is a casualty of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war that lasted 26 years.  Yesterday we stopped by Ragama to speak with the base commander, Colonel Manatunga.  The colonel is also a disabled soldier.  He was partially paralyzed in 1994 when he was shot in the head.  Colonel Manatunga gave us a complete tour of the base while we discussed GAF’s tuk tuk project and the long-term livelihood project.  He is very supportive of our efforts in Sri Lanka.  He was so energized that he came to see the progress of the modified tuk tuk today.