14/09/2009 - The Island

Prisoner donates her prize money to war heroes

 
 
Photo: Minister of Justice and Law Reforms Milinda Moragoda is in conversation with Chairman Prison Welfare Society Sam Wijesinghe, Prisons Commissioner Major General V. R. Silva, Vice Chairman of the Ranaviru Seva Authority, Padama Wetthewa and others after accepting a cheque for a sum of Rs.20,000 from a prison inmate named Sitha Kumarihamy at the Prison Welfare Day ceremony at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on Saturday. Kumarihamy, who had won the first prize for her poem in an all island poetry competition, she handed over her prize money through the Minister to the Ranaviru Seva Authority for the welfare of the war heroes.