For ten years, Arkadie has been a volunteer teacher of language to foreigners at san Timoteo Parish just outside of Rome. Michael's Church.įor the author, the drive to publish a dictionary came from seeing the linguistic difficulties migrants confront in a new land.
Several top clerics were present, including Mgr Oswald Gomis, archbishop emeritus of Colombo, Mgr Kumana Illansasinghe, Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Kurunegala, and Fr Eardley Mendis, from Colombo’s St. The book’s official launch took place on 31 January at the NAFSO offices in Negombo, north of the capital. Published by the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO), Viva l'Italia! (Long live Italy) is the work of Alex Van Arkadie, a Sri Lankan Catholic and a retired official with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) who has been living in Italy for about 40 years. Its goal is to help Sri Lankan immigrants in Italy. The first Italian-Sinhala dictionary has been released.
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