Reports

By Kirsten Hongisto, communications manager-Asia for Christian Children's Fund In six months time, the lives of an entire village were changed. Children began attending school more regularly, the sick and injured could receive timely medical care and families found new ways to…

More than 500 poor women in Sri Lanka, affected by the 2004 tsunami in south-east Asia have for the first time came together and discussed problems they faced. The women, mostly widows from 64 villages in Ambalanthota, in the southern…

GENERAL SITUATION AMPARA The situation in the costal area of Ampara is deteriorating. The Local Government Election played a key role in the change. Attacks on security personnel and civilians is on the increase. Though the civilians are engaged in their…

GENERAL SITUATION A threatening atmosphere prevails in Jaffna. The Government Agent stated that the killings have increased upto seventy and grenade attacks on the armed forces have increased. Roads are deserted after 03.00 p.m. and normal life comes to a…

Overall Situation As of 31 May a total of 159 humanitarian projects in Ampara and 470 projects in Trincomalee have been disrupted in one way or another, of which 159 projects and 321 projects respectively are tsunami related. In Batticaloa…

Co-Chairs met today in Tokyo at a time when Sri Lanka is on the brink of war. Japan convened this meeting, three years after the original Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction and Development of Sri Lanka, to decide whether the Co-Chairs,…

By Kirsten Hongisto, communications manager-Asia for Christian Children's Fund On a hot Wednesday morning, girls could be seen collecting firewood with their mothers or going to wells to collect water. Boys were playing cricket, helping their parents harvest their crops or…

The Permanent Standing Committee on Human Rights, co-chaired by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Minister of Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe, met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday 25th May. The Standing Committee decided on the establishment of the Inter…

AA 06 28 The Australian Government will commit more than $1.6 million to aid communities in heavily mine-affected provinces of northern and eastern Sri Lanka. Australia's Special Representative on Mine Action and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Teresa Gambaro, said that she…

Thousands of children of conflict-affected families and their host communities will benefit from clean water and sanitation Colombo, 23 May 2006 - Thanks to the generous contribution of US$2.6 million from the people and the Government of Australia, two thousand…