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Charity cricket match to raise money for tsunami orphans

By: Carol Davies

Published: 12:25, 13 August 2009

Updated: 12:25, 13 August 2009

Charity cricket match for KASTDA

Charity will be the winner when Worth Cricket Club take on a team of medics from the Queen Mother Hospital at Margate on Sunday, August 16.
The annual fixture at the Worth ground raises funds for KASTDA, the Kent-based charity that has generated around £30,000 for the educational and social welfare of orphans from the tsunami that devastated parts of Sri Lanka four years ago.
The match takes place between midday and 5pm, and tickets are £5 for adults with children under 12 admitted free.
At the end of the event there will be a selection of traditional Sri Lankan food available in the pavilion. A raffle will also be held.
A KASTDA spokesman said: “The annual cricket match is always keenly contested. It is one of our main fund raisers of the year and visitors can be sure of a quality match, followed by excellent food.

"It is a great afternoon out for a worthwhile charity, caring for children and teenagers who are still trying to repair the devastation to their lives caused by the tsunami.
“Although the disaster may seem a distant memory to most of the world, it is very real in the lives of the orphans we work with.”
KASTDA stands for the Kent Association for Sri Lankan Tsunami Daruwo - Daruwo means children in Singalese.

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