Circle of news for nearly billion donations for Notre Dame Cathedral raised more eyebrows for some of the people whose view of humanity should be equal than of the structure as Notre Dame. Is it a responsibility of feeding the humanity than the belief of raising up the iconic structure?
Just today, 21st of April 2019 on the mid of celebration of Easter Sunday, rivers of blood are flooding on the simultaneous attacks on three (3) churches and hotels at different locations of Sri Lanka. It started at around 8:45AM (Sri Lankan Time) at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo then followed by two (2) attacks at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo and Zion Church in Batticaloa. There are three (3) hotels also that were attacked, the Shangrila, the Cinnamon Grand and the Kingsbury.
In the news, a total of 200 people died including 35 foreigners while around 450 have been injured on these coordinated attacks. The nationalities of the 11 foreigners died have identified: 3 Indians, 1 Portuguese, 2 Turkish, 3 UK and 2 US and UK nationalities.
As of the press time, more bodies are being identified and families are given the chance to identify their relatives. Mourning and condemnation are the common sentiments being heard for these cruel acts. Police report said that there eight bomb blast spread on different areas of Sri Lanka with 156 people died on the spot.
More people are aware that areas of the world do not get attention same as much of Notre Dame, other areas and countries will be forgotten to allow time to heal themselves. The recent Sri Lanka bomb attacks, the Rohingya is still not settled until this time, the South Sudan famine is still on and off threat. There are millions still affected by War in Yemen, Libya, Syria and more countries who are under civil wars. But others believed that Notre Dame is just a structure that has been a subject of a thousand times rebuilding for 850 years existence causing much more of Euros expenditures before it was engulfed on this latest fire.
On the contrary, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild the Cathedral in five-years’ time. He urged his countrymen that this will be a “passionately French Project”. He said that, “what we are and what we are to become, to become better than we are today”.
Below are the pledges and donations for rebuilding the symbol of France and be once again visible on the “Ile de la Cité” landscape of Paris, can we have them in Sri Lanka with these recent attacks and rest who needs more donations:
1. Euro 200 million – L’Oreal with Bettencourt Meyers family
2. Euro 200 million – Bernard Arnault of LVMH
3. Euro 100 million – François-Henri Pinault of Kering Group of Companies
4. Euro 100 million – Patrick Pouyanné of Total
5. Euro 50 million – City of Paris
6. Euro 20 million – BNP
7. Euro 20 million – JCDecaux Advertising
8. Euro 10 million – Societe Generale Bank
9. Euro 10 million – Bouygues Group
10. Euro 10 million – AXA
11. Euro 10 million – Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere
12. Euro 10 million – Ile De France Authority
13. USD 5 million – Walt Disney
14. Euro 1 million – Auvergne-Rhone Alpes Region
15. Euro 1 million – Cap Gemini
There are more undisclosed donations and pledges from Apple of Tim Cook, Air France-KLM, Vinci, Saint-Gobain, Caisse Des Depots of Eric Lombard, Casino-Franprix and Monoprix and European Central Bank.
If you can remember our Bestfriend JPs and OFWs around the world, the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire last 15th of April 2019 (Monday). The iconic symbol of France that has been popularized due to 13 million tourists visiting per year.
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