Sri Lankan Families Receive Aid Through CRWRC

CRWRC Newsroom | May 14, 2009

For more than 30 years, civil war has raged in northern Sri Lanka. A recent increase in violence has forced families from their homes and left them in urgent need of outside assistance. CRWRC is responding with emergency food and temporary shelter.

In the last 18 months, violence in war-torn Sri Lanka has escalated as the Sri Lankan government has attempted to reclaim the last stronghold of the Tamil Tigers.  Amidst the violence, families have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety.  Those who survived this journey are now living in temporary camps in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar.  Some sources estimate that there are more than 100,000 people living in these crowded and under-resourced camps.

Although CRWRC no longer has offices in Sri Lanka after the completion of its tsunami response program, it does have ongoing partnerships in the affected area.  This is enabling CRWRC to respond quickly to the current crisis.

Through ZOA and its account in the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, CRWRC is providing $150,000 worth of cooked meals to families and individuals in two camps. This will provide new arrivals with two meals a day and will meet their nutritional needs until they qualify for food staples from the World Food Program.

In addition, through LEADS, CRWRC is providing $30,000 worth of temporary shelters to a camp in Jaffna where people have been living in crowded conditions.  Often, multiple families have been living together in one, small, make-shift tent.  The CRWRC program will provide 12x12 shelters to each family.

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