Rajkumar recognized at ‘Global Official of Dignity Awards’

7 September 2015 03:26 am

Rajkumar Kanagasingam recently received the “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” from Karen Bass who represents California’s 37th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives after the Los Angeles based We Care for Humanity’s “Humanitarian Writer of the Year” Award at the 3rd Global Official of Dignity Awards in New York.  He was a joint coordinator of a German tsunami relief mission in January, 2005 to the war-torn Northern Sri Lanka and other areas and documented all his memories in the book, German Memories in Asia which was authored by him and published in USA in 2007. He also drafted a Strategic Post-Conflict Economic Development Initiative in 2003 to promote the then Sri Lankan Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s “Regaining Sri Lanka” initiative with the support of Dr. Gamini Corea, a former Secretary - General of UNCTAD.