Sri Lanka
World Concern cares for the displaced and homeless In displacement camps set up in schools, factories and tents, thousands of traumatized Sri Lankans survive on meager rations and wait to return back home. For some, it may be a month. For…
Sri Lanka
The Minister of Health Mr. Maithripala Sirisena said that a Presidential Task Force has been established to combat the Dengue threat and an islandwide dengue control programme has ben launched on 2nd, 9th Mondays, and Saturdays 21st and 28th. He…
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More than a year after the conflict ended in Sri Lanka efforts are currently underway by the Government of Sri Lanka to step up resettlement of the 50,000 IDP's that remain in Menik Farm, Vavuniya. As thousands continue to…
Sri Lanka
Collaborative effort by Singapore Red Cross and Singapore Sinhala Association - Final reconstruction project funded by Tidal Waves Asia Fund (Singapore) Sri Lanka, 25 July 2010 - The first Singaporean team to complete a reconstruction project in Sri Lanka after the 2004…
Sri Lanka
Singapore hands over S$3m educational college to Sri Lanka - Collaborative effort by Singapore Red Cross and Singapore Sinhala Association - Final reconstruction project funded by Tidal Waves Asia Fund (Singapore) Sri Lanka, 25 July 2010 - The first Singaporean team to complete…
Sri Lanka
Speech by Mr Tee Tua Ba, Chairman, Singapore Red Cross His Excellency Mahinda Rajapakse, President of Sri Lanka Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen Good Morning, It is my pleasure to join you at today's handover ceremony, to commemorate the successful completion of the Sri Lanka-Singapore…
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The Government has given the opportunities for ex-LTTE child combatants who had missed their opportunity to complete their education due to the war, to sit for the public examinations. Most of these children who have passed the school going ages…
Sri Lanka
BANGKOK, 21 July 2010 (IRIN) - The defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan army last year and an overwhelming election victory by the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) could provide an…
Sri Lanka
DREF operation n=B0 MDRLK001 GLIDE n=B0 EP-2009-000163-LKA The International Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarkedmoney created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is available for RedCross Red Crescent response to emergencies.…
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By Sarah Crowe and Mervyn Fletcher AMPARA DISTRICT, Sri Lanka, 15 July 2010 - Thousands of schoolchildren in Ampara district, eastern Sri Lanka, recently cheered in a new era in education, with marching bands playing and UNICEF flags waving during…
