Informes

The recent floods in Sri Lanka, said to be the most severe in 15 years, have left more than 10,000 families from World Vision's Eravur Pattu Area Development Program (ADP) in Batticaloa marooned or driven from their homes. The people…

by Harini Dias Bandaranayake - Communications Coordinator Floods continue to cause chaos in the east and north of Sri Lanka, with thousands displaced from their homes. World Vision has been providing relief to displaced families in a number of its Area…

Heavy rains have caused flooding in northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka, with thousands of people displaced from their homes. World Vision is providing relief aid to communities left homeless in a number of its program areas around the country. As…

Geneva, 15 December 2004 - Heavy monsoon rains across north-central and eastern Sri Lanka have caused widespread flooding, forcing 250,000 people from their homes and killing one person. Thousands of acres of paddy fields are flooded. Most of the…

Funds Sent To: National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCC/SL) Amount Sent: US$ 30,000 Date: 15 December 2004 Details of Payment Emergency: Heavy monsoon rains causing extensive flooding Date of Emergency: December 2004 Implementing Partner: NCC Sri Lanka Details of the Emergency: After…

Highlights There has been a significant reduction in the cultivated area of both irrigated as well as rainfed crops for 2004 Yala season due to the failure of the rains. The drought situation was much worse than the forecast by…

Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Bruce Billson, announced in Colombo, an Australian $3.5 million commitment to support Sri Lanka's peace-building and economic recovery efforts. 'Twenty years of civil conflict devastated much of Sri Lanka, claiming over 64,000 lives,…

Sri Lankan sporting legend Muttiah Muralitharan, a WFP humanitarian partner, recently visited former war zones in his country to see for himself how WFP helps people get back on their feet. Press officer Heather Hill accompanied him. Kilinochchi, Nov 25,…

Harini Dias Bandaranayake - WV Sri Lanka Communications Pre-school children from the conflict stricken Kilinochchi district of Sri Lanka are receiving at least one nutritious meal a day, thanks to World Vision Sri Lanka's pre-school feeding program. The World Vision…

1 November 2004, JAFFNA - Sri Lanka cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan, a humanitarian partner with the United Nations World Food Programme, said today that meals provided to school children in the country's former war zones are one of the…