A New Year Festival of Hope and Healing for Tsunami Survivors

This particular New year Festival was held on 17^th of April 2006 is  specially held for the Tsunami victims. This festival mainly organized  for the people who resides between  Ambalangoda and Goviyapana, Help-O community groups who were affected by this Tsunami disaster. The time allocated for this new year Festival was insufficient. First of all we had to make the community aware of this. Therefore through community leaders, we made the communities aware of this and we had to exhibit the posters. Further, we had to seek the volunteer’s support as well. Their assistance was essential. Usually, the new year festival is celebrated by, Sinhalese and Tamil people but this time new year festival was for all four religions Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burghar and Malay. All four religions participated for this festival. This New Year Festival unexpectedly a massive crowd was present.