The workers were constructing a toilet at a school next to the temple in Faridpur’s Madhukhali Upazila
Sri Lanka cricket team spend time with Bangladesh’s children with special needs
The Sri Lankan cricket team spent some time with a group of adolescents and young adults with autism and other neuro-developmental disorders at the Hotel Le Méridien in Dhaka, where the team are staying.
Published : 2 March 2016, 09:11 PM
Updated : 3 March 2016, 04:19 AM
Parents Forum, which works with those people, said they wished the Sri Lankan’s cricket team all the best during the “joyous” event on Wednesday.
The group was from the Parents’ Forum’s Vocational Training Center at Mirpur. This Center is the first ever initiative to establish an institutional vocational training center in Bangladesh to work with persons with neurological disabilities.
It grooms the young adults and adults to take up responsibilities and make them competent to work so that they can be employed in suitable places.
Some 30 students challenged with autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities who attended the event prepared wristbands for the players to wish them all the best in their upcoming matches.
They joined the event wearing Sri Lanka jerseys and sang Sri Lankan folk songs along with some from Bangladesh.
The players too enjoyed and sang together with the Sri Lankan cricket players.
The Sri Lanka Bangladesh Friendship Cricket Association (SLBFCA) coordinated the event sponsored by the Le Méridien Dhaka and Apex Footwear Limited.
Earlier in February, Sri Lankan colts met the students of that centre.
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