Sri Lanka
Around 265,000 people were displaced early 2009 and thousands killed as the Sri Lanka government ousted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and declared its rule of the entire island on May 18, 2009. Between April 1 and September 28, 2009, a quarter of a million people were forced to into inadequate temporary camps. The ACT response to people in camps in Vavuniya, Mannar and Jaffna included food and nutrition, water and sanitation, and non-food and hygiene items. ACT members provided considerable support to the rebuilding of coastal areas following the 2004 tsunami.
Latest from Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: “If everyone gets scared, who will work for the community?”
May 25, 2011
It can take a crisis to reveal gaps in an organisation’s priorities
Sri Lanka - reaching out
Mar 31, 2011
ACT supports communities affected by war, massacres, displacement and floods one after the other.
Sri Lanka: untold agricultural damage
Feb 16, 2011
Floods have returned to Sri Lanka with a vengeance, decimated crops and hitting labourers and small farmers hardest