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Ricardo Caivano
Country Coordinator
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 7 schools and 20 communities in Matara District
- Developed disaster management plans in 20 communities to date
- Trained 980 community members in disaster awareness & response to date
- Reached 7,510 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 12 schools and 19 communities in Galle District
- Developed disaster management plans in 19 communities to date
- Trained 140 community members in disaster awareness & response to date
- Reached 9,744 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 18 schools and 18 communities in Matara District
- Developed disaster management plans in 18 communities to date
- Trained 180 community members in disaster awareness & response to date
- Reached 5,246 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Trained 100 SLRCS staff to facilitate disaster awareness & response in schools & communities to date.
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 15 schools and 6 communities in Colombo City
- Developed disaster management plans in 15 communities to date
- Trained 930 community members in disaster awareness & response to date.
- Reached 3,053 beneficiaries to date.
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 1 schools and 18 communities in Colombo District
- Developed disaster management plans in 18 communities to date
- Reached 4,101 beneficiaries to date.
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| Goal: |
To Enhance capacity of communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. |
| Objectives: |
- Build the capacity of communities to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the capacity of schools to effectively prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
- Build the disaster management capacity of SLRCS NHQ & branches
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 18 communities in Gampaha District
- Developed disaster management plans in 18 communities to date
- Trained 90 community members in disaster awareness & response to date
- Reached 8,690 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
Provide support and assistance to the SLRCS in its efforts to reduce the impact on the tsunami affected families. |
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- Improved hygiene practices at community and household level
- Increased access to and use of sustainable sources of safe water
- Improved sanitation at the community level
- Improved capacity of the SLRCS to manage projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 13 houses or schools with access to safe water sources (rainwater tanks, household wells, connections to the water supply network)
- Connected 143 houses/schools to sanitation systems
- Trained 161 people in good hygiene practices
- Reached 2,322 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
Provide water supply facilities to government resettlement area for tsunami displaced families. The resettlement area is located in Ahangama, Habaraduwa, and Hadiwatta areas. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to and use of safe water in target communities
- To enhance the capacity of the SLRCS to manage WatSan projects
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| Goal: |
Construct and rehabilitate wells, rainwater systems and latrines and establish a comprehensive hygiene promotion program. |
| Objectives: |
- Improve water sanitation and hygiene and provide access to safe water in tsunami-affected regions
- Develop SLRCS capacity to implement a hygiene promotion program
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Built 197 wells that provide water to 1,415 people
- Provided 678 houses or schools with access to safe water sources (rainwater tanks, household wells, connections to the water supply network)
- Connected 1,024 houses/schools to sanitation systems
- Trained 1,7340 people in good hygiene practices
- Reached 11,500 beneficiaries to date
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One of the newly constructed latrine by the Red Cross in Paswella village, southern Sri Lanka
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A Paswella villager, 55 year old Sinathambi Mononmani says her new toilet is cleaner and safer than her old latrine
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One of the wells being rehabilitated or constructed by the Red Cross in southern Sri Lanka
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36 year old Sriyankanthi Hirimuthugoda stands proudly over the family well that was newly renovated by the Red Cross
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| Goal: |
Construct and rehabilitate wells, rainwater systems and latrines and establish a comprehensive hygiene promotion program. |
| Objectives: |
- Improve water sanitation and hygiene and provide access to safe water in tsunami-affected regions
- Develop SLRCS capacity to implement a hygiene promotion program
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| Stopped project due to unavoidable circumstances |
| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 66 houses or schools with access to safe water sources (rainwater tanks, household wells, connections to the water supply network)
- Connected 118 houses/schools to sanitation systems
- Connected 118 houses/schools to sanitation systems
- Trained 749 people in good hygiene practices
- Reached 1,210 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
Support water and sanitation component of the Rotary's reconstruction of tsunami-affected schools. |
| Objectives: |
- Restore water and sanitation facilities for tsunami-destroyed schools
- Improve hygiene practices of school children
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 1 school with sufficient water for sanitation systems to operate
- Provided 19 gender segregated sanitation facilities
- Reached 273 beneficiaries
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| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
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- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Distributed ceramic water filters to 2,516 households
- Trained 2,516 households in good hygiene practices
- Reached 12,580 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Distributed ceramic water filters to 2,519 households
- Trained 2,519 households in good hygiene practices
- Reached 12,595 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Stopped project due to unavoidable circumstances |
| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Distributed ceramic water filters to 3,117 households
- Trained 3,117 households in good hygiene practices
- Reached 15,585 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Goal: |
To maintain low rates of mortality/morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases by promoting the use of simple, low cost household water filtration technology combined with hygiene education. |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to sustainable sources of potable water
- Improve hygiene practices and understanding related to water-borne disease transmission at the community and household level
- Improve local capacity to design, manage and sustain safe water supply projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Distributed ceramic water filters to 497 households
- Trained 497 households in good hygiene practices
- Reached 2,485 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
Support water and sanitation component of the Rotary's reconstruction of tsunami-affected schools. |
| Objectives: |
- Restore water and sanitation facilities for tsunami-destroyed schools
- Improve hygiene practices of school children
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 3 schools toilets and with sufficient water for sanitation facilities to operate.
- Established 3 hygiene clubs with 74 members to date.
- Reached 1,685 beneficiaries to date
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The former Randombe Junior School, located near the beach in Ambalangoda, was completely destroyed when the Tsunami struck December 26, 2004.
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An artists rendering of new Randombe Junior School, completely rebuilt on land donated by a local Budhist Temple, features a state-of-the-art computer centre, a well stocked library, a gymnasium and a science lab
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Suranee Weerasinghe, an English teacher at Randombe Junior School, looks on as 16-year old Chathuri Priyangika uses a computer for the first time in the new computer lab.
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| Goal: |
Support water and sanitation component of the Rotary's reconstruction of tsunami-affected schools. |
| Objectives: |
- Restore water and sanitation facilities for tsunami-destroyed schools
- Improve hygiene practices of school children
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 1 school with toilets and sufficient water for sanitation systems to operate
- Reached 987 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
Support water and sanitation component of the Rotary's reconstruction of tsunami-affected schools. |
| Objectives: |
- Restore water and sanitation facilities for tsunami-destroyed schools
- Improve hygiene practices of school children
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 4 school with toilets and sufficient water for sanitation systems to operate
- Provided 73 gender segregated sanitation facilities
- Reached 2,226 beneficiaries
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| Goal: |
Support water and sanitation component of the Rotary's reconstruction of tsunami-affected schools. |
| Objectives: |
- Restore water and sanitation facilities for tsunami-destroyed schools
- Improve hygiene practices of school children
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 4 school with toilets and sufficient water for sanitation systems to operate
- Provided 86 gender segregated sanitation facilities
- Reached 1,805 beneficiaries
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations. |
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- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- Strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies)
- Assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 15 schools and 15 communities in Galle District.
- Conducted 216 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience.
- Renovated 6 community centers.
- Distributed 27,006 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health.
- Trained 1,050 people to provide psychological first aid.
- Reached 43,000 beneficiaries to date.
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Women paint desks and chairs at Martin Wickramasinghe School.
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Students conduct a "Lighting of the Lamp" ceremony to bless the new school kits before they are distributed to over 400 of their peers.
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A community leader officially opens a sewing training course for 35 women in Habaraduwa.
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Children take a few minutes to rest in the shade during a sports festival to bring community members together after the tsunami.
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations. |
| Objectives: |
- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies)
- assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 10 schools and 15 communities in Kalutara District
- Conducted 188 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience.
- Renovated 5 community centers.
- Distributed 27,614 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health.
- Trained 1,318 people to provide psychological first aid.
- Reached 27,614 beneficiaries.
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| Goal: |
Develop the capacity of SLRCS to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being and enhance the capacity of SLRCS to disseminate best practices and lessons learned |
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- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Enhance national capacity to disseminate best practices and lessons learned
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Trained 110 SLRCS staff as Crisis Intervention Specialists.
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations. |
| Objectives: |
- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- Strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies); (4) assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 15 schools and 15 communities in Matara District
- Conducted 248 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience
- Renovated 11 community centers
- Distributed 38,512 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health.
- Trained 1,789 people to provide psychological first aid.
- Reached 41,616 beneficiaries
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P.K. Chithrani holds up an intricate strand of lace she has woven and will sell to adorn the hems of pants or dresses, or to use as a border for pillows
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P.K. Piyasilie is hard at work weaving strands of lace as part of the Psychosocial Support Program's lace making project in Polwachumodra
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Chithrani & Piyasilie are just two of 28 women participating in the Psychosocial Support Program's lace making project in Polwachumodra
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Mitesh Govender, a Psychosocial Specialist, speaks with some women about their experiences following the devastating Tsunami
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations |
| Objectives: |
- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- Strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies)
- Assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 15 schools and 16 communities in Colombo District
- Conducted 299 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience
- Renovated 5 community centers.
- Distributed 13,539 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health.
- Trained 296 people to provide psychological first aid.
- Reached 8,682 beneficiaries.
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations |
| Objectives: |
- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- Strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies)
- Assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 15 schools and 15 communities in Gampaha District
- Conducted 463 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience
- Renovated 9 community centers
- Distributed 34,244 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health
- Trained 2,205 people to provide psychological first aid
- Reached 58,885 beneficiaries.
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| Goal: |
Promote adaptive post-tsunami adjustment based on protective factors identified by community and school populations |
| Objectives: |
- Develop national capacity to implement programs which enhance community psychological and social well-being
- Promote psychological and social well-being of the community through schools
- Strengthen community protective factors (resiliencies)
- Assist community members to establish a "sense of place"
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Working in 7 schools and 8 communities in Colombo City
- Conducted 159 community activities to establish residents' sense of place and develop community resilience
- Renovated 3 community center
- Distributed 11,178 school kits and first aid kits to encourage creative and expressive activities and protect students' health
- " Trained 263 people to provide psychological first aid
- " Reached 9,988 beneficiaries
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| Goal: |
Support SLRCS housing reconstruction efforts by constructing and rehabilitating water and sanitation facilities in tsunami affected houses |
| Objectives: |
- Increase access to water
- Improve community sanitation
- Improve hygiene practices
- Enhance the SLRCS capacity to manage water and sanitation projects
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| Accomplishments to Date: |
- Provided 2,3617 houses with access to safe water sources (rainwater tanks, household wells, connections to the water supply network)
- Connected 139 houses/schools to sanitation systems
- Trained 5,091 people in good hygiene practices
- Reached 11,805 beneficiaries to date
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| Goal: |
To improve the environmental sanitation around the homes of tsunami-affected families and provide them with much needed cash income. |
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- Improve tsunami-affected communities' environment and sanitation
- Reduce the economic impact of the disaster by providing employment opportunities to the affected families through cash-for-work program
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Project Completed.
Accomplishments include: |
- Employed 960 people to clean up their communities. Participants in this cash for work program:
- Removed 10,655 cubic meters of debris
- Cleared 4,488 acres of land
- Provided 4,800 people with increased income for food and other basic necessities
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Cleaning debris flooded into the Karagan Lagoon in Hambantota after tsunami
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A local resident of Hambantota participating in the cash-for-work program and helps to clean the lagoon
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One of the 350 residents of Hambantota who participated in cash for work environmental sanitation clean-up project
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| Goal: |
To improve the environmental sanitation around the homes of tsunami-affected families and provide them with much needed cash income. |
| Objectives: |
- Improve tsunami-affected communities' environment and sanitation
- Reduce the economic impact of the disaster by providing employment opportunities to the affected families through cash-for-work program.
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| Project Completed. Accomplishments include: |
- Employed 960 people to clean up their communities. Participants in this cash for work program:
- Removed 10,655 cubic meters of debris
- Cleared 4,488 acres of land
- Provided 4,800 people with increased income for food and other basic necessities
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| Goal: |
To improve the environmental sanitation around the homes of tsunami-affected families and provide them with much needed cash income. |
| Objectives: |
- Improve tsunami-affected communities' environment and sanitation
- Reduce the economic impact of the disaster by providing employment opportunities to the affected families through cash-for-work program
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Project Completed.
Accomplishments include: |
- Employed 699 people to clean up their communities. Participants in this cash for work program:
- Cleaned 19,251 square meters of canals and coir pits
- Cleared 34 acres of land
- Provided 3,495 people with increased income for food and other basic necessities
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Coir pit before:
Following the tsunami hundreds of coir pits along Sri Lanka's southern coast were polluted with debris such as building materials, plastic products, fallen trees and sewage. The contaminated water is a prime breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying deadly viruses such as malaria, dengue or failaria.
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Coir pit after:
Once cleaned, the coir pits are filled with coconut husks, which soak for up to six months in order to remove the coir. Coir is used to make rope, mats, brooms, picture frames, brooms and brushes.
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M.T.Sumanathi working in bucket brigade:
M.T. Sumanathi (white shirt) is one of a hundred residents of Polhena participating in an American Red Cross cash for work initiative. Residents are paid to clean-up tsunami debris, while eliminating any disease carrying
insect breading grounds.
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M.T. Sumanathi (left) works alongside the other women of Polhena in the bucket brigade to back-fill polluted coir pits.
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