This post is from a Turkish guy living in SL

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    This post is from a Turkish women living in Sri Lanka.

    This post is from a Turkish women living in Sri Lanka.

    "Today I went to Arpico (a big supermarket in Colombo near my office) to buy supplies to send to flood victims. Water, dry rations etc. whatever I could afford. Being from a country that is quite often plagued by natural or man made disasters which require help to be sent, I expected the same view of people in the non-affected areas continuing their lives regularly. As soon as I entered I saw the huge lines at the cashiers points. People buying many shopping carts filled with water, milk powder, bread, diapers, rice, etc. There were maximum 4-5 people doing just their personal shopping and they were hard to spot in the huge crowd that was there to buy things for the people in need. I got teared up. I have never seen such a view in Turkey or anywhere else I have lived in. I would have never expected such a view in Sri Lanka where the average salary is less than the minimum wage in Turkey. I can't say my faith in humanity was restored but I just realized once again, Sri Lankan people, regardless of some bad seeds, are just amazing and helpful people. I am happy and lucky to be living amongst them. I hope the helpfulness here will rub on to many more people around the world."


    Sinhala translate by Google: link
    Sinhala translate by Gihan Gallage: link
     
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    Jonnie_Walker

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    "This post is from a Turkish guy living in SL (Altaf Iqbal)

    Today I went to Arpico (a big supermarket in Colombo near my office) to buy supplies to send to flood victims. Water, dry rations etc. whatever I could afford. Being from a country that is quite often plagued by natural or man made disasters which require help to be sent, I expected the same view of people in the non-affected areas continuing their lives regularly. As soon as I entered I saw the huge lines at the cashiers points. People buying many shopping carts filled with water, milk powder, bread, diapers, rice, etc. There were maximum 4-5 people doing just their personal shopping and they were hard to spot in the huge crowd that was there to buy things for the people in need. I got teared up. I have never seen such a view in Turkey or anywhere else I have lived in. I would have never expected such a view in Sri Lanka where the average salary is less than the minimum wage in Turkey. I can't say my faith in humanity was restored but I just realized once again, Sri Lankan people, regardless of some bad seeds, are just amazing and helpful people. I am happy and lucky to be living amongst them. I hope the helpfulness here will rub on to many more people around the world."


    Sinhala translate by Google: link

    :love:
     

    kolavari

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    කැළෑ පොජ්ජේ
    අද මම ගංවතුරෙන් උන්හිටිතැන් යැවීමට සැපයුම් මිලට ගැනීමට ආපිකෝ (මගේ කාර්යාලය ආසන්නයේ දී කොළඹ දී විශාල සුපිරි වෙළඳසැල්) ගියා. ජලය, මම දැරිය හැකි ඕනෑම දෙයක් වියළි ආහාර ආදී. බොහෝ විට වෙත යොමු කිරීම සඳහා උදව් අවශ්ය කරන ස්වභාවික හෝ මිනිසා විසින් ආපදා ඔත්පලව සිටී කරන රටක් සිට වීම, මම නිතර නිතර තම ජීවිත නොකඩවා-බලපෑම එල්ල වූ නොවන ප්රදේශවල ජනතාවගේ එකම දැක්ම අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ. මම ඇතුල් වූ වහාම මම කැශියර්ලාට ස්ථානවල දී විශාල රේඛා දැක්කා. ආදිය ජලය, කිරි පිටි, පාන්, ඩයපර්, සහල්, පිරී සාප්පු කරත්ත බොහෝ මිලදී ගැනීම පමණක් තම පෞද්ගලික සාප්පු කරන්නේ උපරිම 4-5 ජනතාව පැමිණ ඇති අතර ඔවුන් වෙනුවෙන් දේවල් මිලදී ගැනීමට සිටින බව එහි සිටි විශාල පිරිසක් හඳුනා ගැනීමට අපහසු විය ජනතාව අවශ්ය අය. මම teared වුණා. මම කවදාවත් තුර්කියේ එවන් අදහසක් හෝ වෙනත් ඕනෑම තැනක මම ජීවත් දැක තිබෙනවා. ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ එවැනි දැක්ම සාමාන්ය වැටුප තුර්කියේ අවම වැටුප වඩා අඩු කොහෙද අපේක්ෂා නොකළ ඇත. මම ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට, නොතකා නරක බීජ, හුදෙක් පුදුම සහගත හා ප්රයෝජනවත් මිනිස්සු මනුෂ්යත්වයට මගේ විශ්වාසය සුව විය නමුත් මම නැවත වරක් තේරුම් කියන්න බැහැ. මම ප්රීතිමත් හා ඔවුන් අතර ජීවත් වීමට වාසනාවන්ත වෙනවා. මම මෙතන ඵලකට ලොව පුරා තවත් බොහෝ ජනතාවට මත අරියාලේ වනු ඇතැයි අපි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා.

    :baffled::baffled::baffled:
     
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    Nice logic :lol: so, if you're not affected by the floods, you shouldn't live your life? is there a service for those of us who were not affected by it? :rofl: if Turkey were so great and were full of amazing ppl, why the heck he on here first place?

    OP, I wonder, where did you even find this whinny attention seeking turkish bugger?
     

    jay-shan

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    "This post is from a Turkish guy living in SL (Altaf Iqbal)

    Today I went to Arpico (a big supermarket in Colombo near my office) to buy supplies to send to flood victims. Water, dry rations etc. whatever I could afford. Being from a country that is quite often plagued by natural or man made disasters which require help to be sent, I expected the same view of people in the non-affected areas continuing their lives regularly. As soon as I entered I saw the huge lines at the cashiers points. People buying many shopping carts filled with water, milk powder, bread, diapers, rice, etc. There were maximum 4-5 people doing just their personal shopping and they were hard to spot in the huge crowd that was there to buy things for the people in need. I got teared up. I have never seen such a view in Turkey or anywhere else I have lived in. I would have never expected such a view in Sri Lanka where the average salary is less than the minimum wage in Turkey. I can't say my faith in humanity was restored but I just realized once again, Sri Lankan people, regardless of some bad seeds, are just amazing and helpful people. I am happy and lucky to be living amongst them. I hope the helpfulness here will rub on to many more people around the world."


    Sinhala translate by Google: link

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    humpty dumpty

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    I went to Keells today to buy some dry rations for people in need & I experienced the same atmosphere there, only few people are doing shopping for their personal use, all others are buying stuff in large quantities for people in need.
    Proud to be a Sri Lankan...
     

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    and, those amazing habits are being wiped out and turned them into bull shits by SL politicians.
     
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    මෙම පෝස්ට් එක ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන ටර්කි ජාතික පුද්ගලයෙකුගෙනි.

    අද දින මා උදැසන ආපිකෝ වෙලද සංකිර්ණය වෙත පිවිසියේ ගංවතුරෙන් විපතට පත් වුවන් හට අවශ්‍ය ද්‍රව්‍ය මිලදි ගැනීම සදහාය.ඒ අතර මට මිලදි ගත හැකි ජලය ඇතුළු භාණ්ඩ කිහිපයක් විය.මා හට වුවමනා වුයේ ස්වභාවික අපදාව නිසා අවතැන් වු ජනතාවට මා හට හැකි අයුරින් උපකාර කිරිමයි.මා වෙලදපොලට ඇතුල් වු විටම දුටු දෙයින් මා විශ්මයට පත්විමි.භාණ්ඩ මිලදි ගෙන මුදල් ගෙවීම සදහා කැෂීයර් වල දිගු පෝලීම් දක්නට ලැබිණි.ඔවුන් වෙලදසැලේ වු භාණ්ඩ රැගෙන යන කරත්ත ජල බෝතල්,පිටි පැකට්,පාන්,හාල් වලින් පිරි තිබුණි.එහි වු පුද්ගලයින් 4-5 දෙනෙකු ඇරෙන්නට අනෙක් සියළු දෙනා අවතැන් වු ජනතාවට රැගෙන යාම සදහා භාණ්ඩ මිලදි ගනිමින් සිටිනු දක්නට ලැබිණ.මා දෙනෙත් කදුලින් බරවිණි.මා මෙවැනි දර්ශණයක් කිසිදිනෙක තුර්කිය හෝ අන් කවර තැනක දැක නොතිබුණි.ලංකිකයන් තුර්කි ජාතිකයන්ට වඩා අඩු වැටුප් පරිමාණයන් ලැබුවත් ඔවුන් හැකි පමණින් තම රටේම ජනතාව සදහා මේසා විශාල උපකාරයක් කරනු දැකිම සැබවින්ම අගනේය.සැබවින්ම ශ්‍රි ලාංකිකයන් යනු වචනයේ පරිසමාප්ත අර්ථයෙන්ම මානුෂිකත්වය දරණ පුද්ගලයන්ය.එවැනි මිනිසුන් පිරිසක් අතර ජිවත් වන්නට ලැබීමද මා ලද භාග්‍යයකි.සැබවින්ම මෙය ලෝකයාටම ආදර්ශයක්.
     
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    Nice logic :lol: so, if you're not affected by the floods, you shouldn't live your life? is there a service for those of us who were not affected by it? :rofl: if Turkey were so great and were full of amazing ppl, why the heck he on here first place?

    OP, I wonder, where did you even find this whinny attention seeking turkish bugger?

    dude their gdp per capita is around $10 000+. sri lankan gdp per capita is less than $4000