Sri Lanka

? Disaster Mitigation Project

Partner: Sri Lanka YMCA

Location: Kalmunai YMCA?Tamil?and Matara YMCA?Sinhara?

Beneficiaries: Tsunami affected children in the regions

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In Japan, There are a various types of disaster mitigation education. Using old Japanese Tsunami stories, the

Cutting short vacations and voluntarily working long nights and weekends, Counterpart staff assembled millions of dollars worth of medicines and other urgently requested supplies which were airlifted to the devastated south Asian region by our friends at SkyLink Aviation.

Counterpart, with our local partners, was one of the first international organizations to report, and meet, other

Après les filles, ce sont les garçons

As the 10 o'clock school bell rings, the children gather around the classroom doorways and peer out excitedly as a small, black-and-white truck arrives on the school grounds. It's snack time at La Dong elementary school in tsunami-ravaged Aceh Besar, Indonesia.

The truck backs up to the doorway, its

U. S. and Indonesia sign agreement for US$400 million for relief and reconstruction

U. S. and Indonesia sign agreement for US$400 million for relief and reconstruction The governments of the U.S. and Indonesia signed an Agreement committing a total of US$400 million in tsunami relief and reconstruction aid to support immediate and long-term recovery in Indonesia.

In a ceremony at the Presidential Palace on July 7, 2005, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and U.S. Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe highlighted the strong partnership between Indonesia and the United States.

SCiSL provides outdoor play equipment to 25 pre schools in Trincomalee

Second Children's Library completed in Matara.

400 desks and chairs distributed to schools in Matara district.

Security Situation

SCISL held a workshop on security for all security focal point persons on the 11th of July in Colombo.

In Trincomalee 04 LTTE members were killed by unknown people. This has created more tension in the district. After this incident many attacks occurred in the district creating tension and

Venezuela donated US$ 6.2 million for the Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Fund for the construction of 1,000 houses for tsunami-affected people. These houses are to be constructed in a location to be determined by the Government.

The Interagency Group in Batticaloa district has drafted and approved the INGO Code of Conduct for Buying, Renting and Employing Material and Human Resources. It establishes guidelines for INGO's and offers a grievance process which individuals or organisations can use if they feel they have experienced unhelpful behaviour from an NGO. According

With help of other humanitarian organizations and those in the devastated regions, CRS has identified priorities: shelter for the homeless, food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, and help to rebuild the communities and livelihoods of those ravaged by the catastrophe. We have a 5-year plan to aid the survivors and to provide them with the tools they need to rebuild their own lives.

India

With your support, CRS helps provide:

• Basic necessities for 300,000 people
• Shelter for 15,000 families
• Educational supplies for 26,000 children

Health

From 26 to 28 June, IOM's counter-trafficking programme funded and supported local NGO, Sewalanka, to run a district level training workshop in Trincomalee for 30 field workers and community