Economic crisis: Former Sri Lanka cricketer offers tea and buns to people waiting for petrol

New Delhi: Owing to the economic crisis, people in Sri Lanka are facing an acute shortage of basic items like cooking gas, medicine, toilet paper and more.

Many people are standing in a queue in the island nation for hours to get fuel and cooking gas.

To help those who are standing in queues for petrol, former Sri Lankan cricketer Roshan Mahanama distributed tea and buns in Ward Place and Wijerama Mawatha of western Sri Lanka.

He also shared his photos, clicked when he was distributing tea and buns on Twitter. He wrote, ”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,” added Mahanama.

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. pic.twitter.com/i0sdr2xptI

— Roshan Mahanama (@Rosh_Maha) June 18, 2022

In the second tweet, the cricketer requested people to look after each other in the fuel queues.

”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,” read the tweet of the Sri Lankan cricketer.

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.

— Roshan Mahanama (@Rosh_Maha) June 18, 2022