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Sri Lanka Volunteer’s Blog
By Joshua | April 18th, 2007 | 
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Meet Doug. Doug is an Engineer and Humanitarian Aid Worker from San Francisco who is stationed in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Doug is helping to build schools while avoiding land mines and dealing with poisonous snakes in his toilet. Doug and my brother met at Burning Man a few years back, and he and I tried to get together when I was in Sri Lanka last year, but it didn’t work out. Although some of the world’s most beautiful beaches are reportedly just up the coast from Trincomalee, it was too far from our post in Nuwara Eliya and we ended up opting for Hikkaduwa for our one beach vacation. In any case, here’s his blog for your enjoyment.
4 Responses to “Sri Lanka Volunteer’s Blog”
Nice way to thanks them - they are the lifebood afterall…
Send Gifts to Srilanka, Flowers to Srilanka, Cakes and Chocolates to Sri Lanka and Colombo.
We should be in favor in Humanity. we should feel proud to help other humans.
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These give me a lot of strength to see after the heartache and disaster and war that continues to terrorize every living molecule in this galaxy, especially among the war-mongerin’ Sinhalese Buddhists against the Hindi Tamils in Sri Lanka, especially after the Tsunami of ‘04: http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_danimal/sets/111814/
The only real civil war is in your mind, kill your buddha, free you mason, take a walk, kneel in a temple, catch a fish, leave your cubible, grow a tree, love a dawg especially Hank the Bluegrass Greengras Mascot of US Naval Academy.