Reports

Sandunika is a ninth-grader at Nalagama Sinhala Junior School, an open-air school in tropical Sri Lanka. It's a long, narrow space with temporary walls dividing the classrooms, and a couple of offices on each end. About 70 students attend. The…

This report was issued by OCHA Sri Lanka and has been compiled with contributions from the Disaster Management Centre, UNOPS and the UN OCHA Field Office in Vavuniya. It covers the period from 15 to 17 August 2009. The…

I. Situation Overview & highlights TRINCOMALEE - On 3 August, the Muttur District Secretariat released a phased resettlement plan for all remaining people displaced in 2006/07 in Batticaloa District, who are returning to Trincomalee. It is expected that 429 will have…

By Rishani Wijesinghe, Communications Manager, IFRC Sri Lanka The north of Vaharai, along the east coast of Sri Lanka, is one of the most underdeveloped areas in Batticaloa district according to local resident Kannapan Sivalin. Most of the people living here…

Message All those who work for development and peace, as a matter of fact, for any constructive objective, will have to make a new beginning all the time. By undertaking a heavy responsibility for the relief, rehabilitation, and resettlement of Internally…

170 former LTTE child soldiers sat the GCE Advanced Level in Vavuniya yesterday as a result of the Government's humanitarian operations to free the North and East people from the claws of LTTE terrorism, Examinations Department sources said. The…

Interview with our Canadian colleague Denise Otis, a UNHCR Canada legal officer who just returned from serving on UNHCR's Emergency Response Team in Sri Lanka. The interview is published by Embassy Magazine, Canada's influential foreign policy newspaper which has a…

The Government of Japan has provided US$ 302, 648 (approximately Rs.35 Million) for the "Early Childhood Care and Development Project in Trincomalee District" to be implemented by the Save the Children Japan (SCJ), a Japanese humanitarian NGO, under the Japan-NGO…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - On 4 August, the Minister of Power and Energy W.D.J. Senevirathne said Rs.6,000 million is being spent to provide electricity to the Northern Province in support of the resettlement programme. The Ministry plans to…

"A real building instead of a dilapidated shack gives the child a new attitude, a new spirit of attending a real school and changes their attitude to learning. It's a feeling of importance of belonging....." says a Pre-school teacher…