{"id":66476,"date":"2017-05-29T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66476"},"modified":"2017-05-29T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:13:53","slug":"2017-flooding-disaster-appeal-for-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/29\/2017-flooding-disaster-appeal-for-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Flooding Disaster Appeal for Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara, Inc.\u00a0<\/em>1847 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>May 28, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the worst flooding and mudslide disaster in recent memory.\u00a0 As a result of these natural phenomena, as of today\u2019s date, over 500,000 people are homeless, and approximately 200 people have lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>We at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara have always done our part when it comes to alleviating suffering in our Motherland.\u00a0 Please open your hearts and wallets and make a generous donation to a relief fund we have joined with the Derana Television Station in Colombo.\u00a0 One of our resident monks, Ven. Kalabululande Dhammajothi is in Sri Lanka, and he will be working with Derana to make sure the donations we receive are put to immediate and best use directly where they are needed the most.<\/p>\n<p>Send your contributions to the temple, and we will forward them on to Bhante Dhammajothi.\u00a0 Ven. Kalyanawansa and Ven. Seelaratana will be coordinating these activities.\u00a0 Remember that your donations are tax deductible.<\/p>\n<p>We thank you in advance for your generosity.\u00a0 May you have the Blessings of the Triple Gem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Walpola Piyananda<br \/>\nbhantep@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara, Inc.\u00a01847 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019 May 28, 2017 Dear Friends, Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the worst flooding and mudslide disaster in recent memory.\u00a0 As a result of these natural phenomena, as of today\u2019s date, over 500,000 people are homeless, and approximately 200 people have lost their lives. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}