Combating The Damages of War & Accident: Artificial Limbs for One & All … In Lanka

CHRONOLOGY BACKWARDS

https://thuppahis.com/2021/07/24/dr-susiri-weerasekera-a-sturdy-servant-of-humankind/

https://thuppahis.com/2019/10/04/dr-susiri-weerasekera-a-man-for-all-seasons/

Dr Weerasekera standing 2nd from right facing us with a visiting dignitary at the Friend-in-Need Society building in Colombo

Susiri Weerasekera 2012 Fitting Artificial Limbs for the IDPs and ex-Tigers, July 2009 to March 2010 — FINS at the frontline,” 23 September 2012, https://thuppahis.com/2012/09/23/7108/ …. being a Report sent to the FINS donors, dated 21 August 2011

 

Michael Roberts 2010 “Feet across the Land, One and All”: The Vitality of the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society,” 27 May 2010, ………………………. ………………..  https://thuppahis.com/2010/05/27/%e2%80%9cfeet-across-the-land-one-and-all%e2%80%9d-the-vitality-of-the-colombo-friend-in-need-society/

 

 

 

Michael Roberts 2010 The Jaipur Foot in Lanka: Renewable Energy, Little People, Many Miracles,” 29 June 2010, https://thuppahis.com/2010/06/29/the-jaipur-foot-in-lanka-renewable-energy-little-people-many-miracles/

Michael R at the centre in Jaffna Town where artificial limbs were fitted out [a visit organised by SUSIRI via his Tamil doctor pals in charge of that centre]

 

 

ALSO NOTE

Michael Roberts 2014 Dedicated Medical Work Amidst the Heat of War, Death and Propaganda: In the Vanni Pocket, 2009,” 8 January 2014, ……………

Susiri Weerasekera 2014 Hambantota Port: An Occasional Traveller’s Benign View,” 21 April 2014, ……………………………………………………… ……………………

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