International Project in Sri Lanka

On December 26, 2004, the patients of the Mahamodara Maternity Hospital in Galle were evacuated just in time to escape the tsunami’s second, more powerful wave.

Although the mothers and children survived, the hospital didn’t. The venerable Mahamodara had been Galle’s maternity hospital since the 1940s. Now that it was gone, mothers were forced to go to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, which quickly became overwhelmed and overcrowded.

In the photo,  RC SJE/E Director of International Service, Richard Dorsay stands with the past president and secretary of Galle Rotary Club, after receiving money from our rotary club for a children's ward in a Sri Lankan hospital. (Love the shorts, Dr. Dorsay! ;o) )