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Sri Lankan priest builds houses for the poor-by Quintus Colombage Source:ucanews Madasami Selvaraj, a Hindu laborer, visited all the politicians and religious leaders in his area and asked them for support to build a house for his six-member family. He had a lifelong dream to build a new house. On most rainy days, his children cannot go to school because their school uniforms are wet. The family live in a small thatched hut. “On rainy days the whole house gets wet and muddy. We went to meet all the politicians in the area and asked for help, but no one did. Eventually our house became muddy from the rain and the walls collapsed,” said Selvaraj. ...