By Jilawatan

On Sunday, Asin accompanied by the First Lady of Sri Lanka, Madam Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa, visited Jaffna and Vavuniya, once LTTE fortresses in Sri Lanka.

Asin became the first Indian celebrity to set foot in these Tamil areas in 30 years. The actress is in Sri Lanka for the last two weeks was shooting for her Hindi film Ready with Salman Khan.

Earlier, Asin had met Namal Rajapaksa, MP and eldest son of the President and expressed her desire to visit the war stricken areas, when she had landed in Colombo. She also wanted to do something to help the Tamil population of the areas, and thus came up with the idea of the medical camp along with Salman’s ‘Being Human Foundation’.

I am just an artist, not a politician

Asin along with ‘Being Human Foundation’, flew down five eye surgeons with 1000 eye lenses, after care medication and even the technical equipment required for the operations from India, in order to ensure the smooth success of the Eye Care Camps.

Within a span of three days, over 300 cataract operations were performed on elderly Tamilian patients in the region.

Asin speaking to Colombo said: “I came to Sri Lanka for work and now I want to reach out to the Tamil population and do smething within my capacity to help them. We will continue to periodically host these eye camps across the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka. Currently, there are over 10,000 patients registered in the region waiting to undergo cataract operations”

Asin is indeed a brave girl as there is a lot of criticism against her visit to Sri Lanka in Kollywood circles. However Asin concluded by saying: “We will have more doctors, more equipment and more medication down then. I will do as much as I can to be of some assistance to the people of war-torn Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka.”

Asin also visited an orphanage for Tamil girls who have lost their parents in war and took part in an eye surgery.