Rapports

On December 26, 2004, South Asia was hit by one of the most violent earthquakes and subsequent tsunami ever to have occurred. These natural disasters, spreading as far as the coast of East Africa, claimed more than 150 000…

Transitional Housing To date, IOM Sri Lanka has completed 4,188 transitional accommodations in seven tsunami affected districts. Committed to building a total of 5,775 transitional accommodations, IOM has secured land for 5,445 accommodations so far. In the first…

Overall Situation The Under Secretary General Jan Egeland visited Sri Lanka on 11-12 October. As well as meeting key government officials, donors, the UN country team and NGOs, Mr. Egeland traveled to Batticaloa where he spoke first hand with beneficiaries.…

The Government of Japan will assist in the reconstruction of schools in tsunami affected areas in Sri Lanka, in view of the severe destruction to a large number of schools in the coastal belt resulting from the tsunami disaster…

Nearly nine months after the tsunami, the tears have not gone away. Talk is of the transition from the immediate relief phase to longer-term recovery. Physical progress is certainly visible along the coastlines affected by the tsunami. But Sumanthi, a mother…

Context of the Intervention Like many international actors, ACTED has engaged in reconstruction efforts in countries hit by the Tsunami December 26th of last year. Today, ACTED leads its programs from its base in Batticaloa with the support of the…

IOM medical staff collaborating with Sri Lankan health department staff last week, organized a vaccination campaign against chickenpox for 200 children in Kallady, a camp for tsunami survivors near the eastern city of Trincomalee. The vaccination campaign for children under twelve…

Overall Situation The Norwegian government provided ILO with Rs. 180 million (US$ 1.8 million) to speed up the tsunami rehabilitation work in Sri Lanka. Norway, in co-operation with ILO, aims to contribute to social and economic reconstruction and poverty reduction…

As political problems persist in Sri Lanka, recruitment of child combatants by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is rising. In the wake of the tsunami in Sri Lanka, there was a brief interlude of harmony as Sinhalese…

Cheddipalayam is one of many fishing communities that lay in the path of the Tsunami, and 71 of the village's families have petitioned the Home for Human Rights for support. We go out to visit, and find that the…