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Trade maintains support as Travel Retail Village opensTrade maintains support as Travel Retail Village opens
Gavin Lipsith
15-Mar-2006
SRI LANKA. The travel-retail industry has promised to continue its support for the tsunami-stricken villagers of Palliyawatte after funding the creation of 20 homes at a new settlement 10km inland from the original site
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Supporters attending the March 16 official opening of the new village—at which DFNI represented the trade press—made generous pledges offering further assistance to improve the quality of life of the
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(16-Mar-2006) - The rebuilt village of Palliyawatte was officially opened on March 16 with several travel-retail guests on hand, including DFNI Asia
(15-May-2006) - About 200 people whose lives were shattered in one hour on December 26 2004 were given a new lease of life in March as residents of the tsunami-stricken Sri Lankan village of Palliyawatte moved into the Travel Retail Village. DFNI was among honoured guests at the official opening
(20-Jun-2008) - The community centre, in memory of the former TFWA conference and research director, will open in the Travel Retail Village next month, reconstructed after the Indian Ocean tsunami
(1-Feb-2005) - The Alpha Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Fund has reached $200,000 in pledges from the travel-retail industry
(1-Nov-2005) - SRI LANKA. The Alpha Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Fund is continuing its work to rebuild the village of Palliyawatte, with the help of the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised by the travel-retail industry