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THROUGH THE LENS (cont...)
Netherlee Cottage News
This year, the Netherlee management team, the house mothers
and the residents travelled by train to Kandy. The emotions were
a mixture of excitement and disappointment as we were forced
to leave three ladies behind. Three of our residents are not fully
discharged from the mental health hospital and just as we were
in the middle of preparations to leave, the hospital decided that
Ashoka, Ganga and Viola could not travel with us because of
the danger from the Coronavirus. The team were very
disappointed to leave part of their family behind.
We visited the Temple of the Tooth, had lunch at a friend's hotel
and visited Peradeniya gardens returning to Colombo with a
happy but very tired group of ladies.
Recent meetings with the senior management of the Mental Health hospital have given us great encouragement that a new community
house will be established soon. We wish to move three ladies from the Cottage to independent living and there are 8 ladies waiting for a
place to train at the Cottage.
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