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Simon Jones
Country Coordinator
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- Housing Construction - Kilinochchi
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Goal: |
To provide permanent housing for tsunami affected families. |
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Objectives: |
- Build approximately 573 houses on five sites for tsunami affected families in Kilinochchi, providing affected communities with safe permanent housing.
Work on this project is currently on hold due to the security situation caused by the on-going conflict.
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- Colombo - Ratmalana & Kandawala apartment complexes
Galle District – Thalgasgodawatta & Andadolawatte
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Goal: |
To provide permanent housing for tsunami affected families. |
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Objectives: |
- To build housing in Colombo & Galle for tsunami affected families, ensuring affected communities have access to safe permanent housing.
The Ratmalana project consists of 56 units and is scheduled to be completed by end of June 2007. The Kadawala project consists of 32 units and is scheduled to be completed by end of March, 2007.
In Galle District housing construction funded by the Canadian Red Cross is currently underway. 16 houses are being built in Andadolawatte and 56 units are being built in Thalgasgodawatta. These are scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2007.
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Canadian Red Cross Country Coordinator Simon Jones and Construction Delegate Gayraj Achary participate in the ground-breaking ceremony at Kandawala, Rathmalana in Colombo. December 21, 2006. |
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Canadian Red Cross Country Coordinator Simon Jones and Construction Delegate Gayraj Achary participate in the ground-breaking ceremony at Kandawala, Rathmalana in Colombo. December 21, 2006. |
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Canadian Red Cross tsunami housing project in Kandawala. |
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Canadian Red Cross Country Coordinator in Sri Lanka Simon Jones, and Canadian Construction Delegate Gayraj Achary at the housing site in Kandawala. |
| Goal: |
To develop and strengthen the capacity of Tsunami affected and other vulnerable individuals, families and communities to improve their health and living conditions through self help action facilitated by the community, the SLRCS and the government. |
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- Restore and improve community health by strengthening the ability of individuals, families, and communities to prevent and care for their own health at the household and community levels.
- Support and strengthen individuals, families, and communities capacity to manage psychosocial impact from crisis situations and thus enhance proactive behaviour at the household and community levels.
- Foster development through improved community capacity to identify and develop small scale projects to meet essential household needs.
- Develop community empowerment, with a gender equity approach, towards action promoting resiliency at the individual, family and community levels.
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Inauguration of the first SLRCS/CRC five year Community-based Health project in Vavuniya on February 10, 2006. To date four Community-based Health projects have been launched with plans to open another five by the end of 2007.
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| Goal: |
To maintain a continuous Oxygen supply for patient care services in Ampara, Badulla, Hambantota, Jaffna, Matara and Polonnaruwa General Hospitals. |
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- To construct proper storage facilities for liquid oxygen storage and increase oxygen storage in these hospitals so that a continuous supply of oxygen can be maintained.
- To provide adequate oxygen for all hospital needs and minimize the risk of life-threatening situations caused by oxygen shortage.
- To reduce the logistical difficulties and improper handling procedures associated with use of oxygen cylinders by installing facilities for a steady supply of oxygen.
A cardiology unit will also be built at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
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To support the Kilinochchi District Hospital (DH), the Maruthankerny Rural Hospital (RH) and the Pallai Peripheral Unit (PU) to become well functioning hospitals that deliver good quality, reliable services to outpatients to RH and PU and to surgical patients in the Kilinochchi DH. |
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- The Canadian Red Cross provided a medical team to support the hospital staff in providing surgical services up until June 2006. The team also trained the medical and nursing teams.
- The CRC is providing the hospital with medical equipment worth CDN $500,000. This is being coordinated with the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health. Funding was also provided by the Canadian Red Cross for refurbishing the nurses’ quarters and operating room, as well as for a new hospital pharmacy with a computerized inventory system.
- The Kilinochchi District Hospital sustained damage from conflict activities prior to the tsunami and required repair work in order for it to be able to provide services to the public. It also suffered damages in October 2006 from the conflict.
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| Goal: |
To assist the SLRCS NHQ and target branches to develop their capacity to provide sustainable, relevant and effective services to their target population. |
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- Ensure that the SLRCS target branches, through participatory initiatives improve their capacity to identify and respond to the needs of the most vulnerable populations in the country.
- Ensure that the SLRCS as an institution has a strategic and developmental plan which will enable it to develop and strengthen the capacity of the headquarters and the branches to deliver sustainable programs.
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To position the SLRCS as the most effective national humanitarian organization in the country for responding to any disasters and to establish partnership with stakeholders, partners and government. |
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- To build the capacity of the SLRCS in disaster management in order to enable the NS to alleviate human suffering efficiently and effectively.
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To ensure that the basic needs of the tsunami affected people currently living in transitional camps are met until their permanent shelter and life sustaining activities/livelihoods have been re-established. |
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- To meet the basic needs of tsunami affected communities living in three transitional camps in Colombo in collaboration with the SLRCS.
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To provide quality vocational training to youths (male and female) for future employment. |
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- Ensure trainees who commence vocational training complete the program, gaining skills in an employment-oriented trade.
- Ensure that 40% of the trainees who complete the vocational training are female.
- Provide trainees with practical work skills in a real employment situation - on the job training.
- Develop entrepreneurial skills by providing entrepreneur development training
- To enable successful trainees with EDT to receive credit from lending institutions to start their own businesses.
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To provide loans to help individuals rebuild housing damaged or destroyed in the tsunami. To provide business loans to assist entrepreneurs in launching a small businesses through a revolving loan pool. |
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- To improve housing conditions - each of 398 credit unions that are part of the Sanasa development bank will choose ten of the most vulnerable families in their communities to receive grants to replace housing damaged or destroyed by the tsunami.
- To rebuild or launch small businesses and to generate new livelihoods at the grassroots level in approximately 400 communities throughout the country.
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