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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
ACT in Sri Lanka
ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.
Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups
Organisations with HQ in Sri Lanka
International organisations in Sri Lanka
- Christian Aid
- ECLOF International
- Lutheran World Relief
- Norwegian Church Aid
- United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
Organisations funding work in Sri Lanka
- Act for Peace
- Bread for the World
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- Christian World Service
- Church World Service (CWS)
- DanChurchAid
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Diakonie, Austria
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The
About Sri Lanka
- Population: 20.2 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Colombo (commercial), Sri Jayawardenepura (administrative)
- Largest city: Colombo
- Area: 65,610 sq km (25,332 sq miles)
- Major languages: Sinhala, Tamil, English
- Major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity
- Life expectancy: 70 years (men), 78 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: Sri Lankan rupee
- Main exports: Clothing and textiles, tea, gems, rubber, coconuts