Former Sri Lankan cricketer offers tea, buns to people at petrol stations amid economic crisis
Former cricketer Roshan Mahanama served tea and buns among people waiting at petrol stations in the capital city of Colombo.
Sri Lanka is battling its worst financial crisis since independence and there is a chronic shortage of fuel and food everywhere. After the island nation’s power minister declared that the country’s fuel stock would be over in five days on Friday, queues at gas stations got a few kilometers longer.
In a quest to ease people’s sufferings, the world cup-winning cricketer, along with a few volunteers, offered tea and buns to people waiting at the petrol stations.
He took to Twitter and shared a few photographs of his, writing, “We served tea and buns with the team from Community Meal Share this evening for the people at the petrol queues around Ward Place and Wijerama mawatha. The queues are getting longer by the day and there will be many health risks to people staying in queues.”
Mahanama also urged people to bring adequate fluids and food to stand in long queues. He appealed to people to be there for each other in trying times.
He tweeted, “Please, look after each other in the fuel queues. Bring adequate fluid and food and if you’re not well please, reach out to the closest person next to you and ask for support or call 1990. We need to look after each other during these difficult times.”
