{"id":73731,"date":"2018-01-13T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73731"},"modified":"2018-01-13T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:06:40","slug":"official-statement-released-by-dr-mareena-thaha-reffai-coordinator-of-darun-nusra-house-of-benevolence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/13\/official-statement-released-by-dr-mareena-thaha-reffai-coordinator-of-darun-nusra-house-of-benevolence\/","title":{"rendered":"Official statement released by Dr Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0 Coordinator of Darun Nusra, House of benevolence\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr.Reffai\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Almuslimaath\u00a0<\/b>Sri Lankan Association of Muslim Women & Girls<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
We of the administration at the orphanage Darun Nusra would like to address recent events regarding the children of Darun Nusra and the unfortunate events that they have been embroiled in.<\/div>\n
There have been a lot of varying versions of these events circulated through social media and many statements made by me and my colleagues but we would like to make a final and formal one to set the record straight.<\/div>\n
Despite the fact that the court case is ongoing and the verdict is yet to be released upon the accused, me and my colleagues in the administration would like to officially state that our first priority is the wellbeing of the children who are\u00a0 in our care.<\/div>\n
Firstly, we would like to affirm that we completely want to help the authorities in any way we can in their endeavors to ensure the safety and protection as well as justice for\u00a0 the children at Darun Nusra and at no time\u00a0had we refused to do so, and that we are determined against any perpetrator who, if has caused them any harm, and would like to cooperate with those who, like us, have the children in their best interest.<\/div>\n
It gives me and my colleagues deep pain to think of any misfortune that these children may have ever had to encounter, and we are certainly on the side of justice, recompense and the movement to ensure them a bright future.<\/div>\n
The events that have occurred are also unfortunately mixed up in internal politics of the\u00a0organisation\u00a0 which has confused a lot of the information that has been released to the public.<\/div>\n
However at the moment, the children, who are currently in good health and have resumed their lives and their schooling, are our primary concern; we would like them to be able to live good, healthy lives, recovering through counseling, untainted by public scandal, continuing to excel in their studies and work as they have for so long now.<\/div>\n
For this to happen it is important that we, the admin at Darun Nusra, and you, the public, maintain a common ground of interest: the growth and happiness of the children.<\/div>\n
We also want to reiterate here that except one child, none of them are true orphans, all of them have some\u00a0relative, a mother, father or both,\u00a0 but they are at Darun nusra\u00a0\u00a0because of some\u00a0difficulty they face being\u00a0brought up in their own homes. They regularly\u00a0go home\u00a0for holidays and all of them\u00a0are brought back to the darun nusra by their guardians though there is no compulsion for them\u00a0 to come\u00a0back.<\/div>\n
We welcome you to visit them yourselves, or contribute and donate to their wellbeing, and to respect their right to a life that is free of public scrutiny. Meanwhile, me and my colleagues pray that they continue to shine, that they move on successfully from their tribulations, that most certainly justice is served in court to those who have caused them any harm, Inshallah.<\/div>\n

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Dr.Reffai\u00a0\u00a0Almuslimaath\u00a0Sri Lankan Association of Muslim Women & Girls We of the administration at the orphanage Darun Nusra would like to address recent events regarding the children of Darun Nusra and the unfortunate events that they have been embroiled in. There have been a lot of varying versions of these events circulated through social media and […]<\/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-73731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73731","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=73731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}