Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation after the Tsunami
Sri Lanka: Rebuilding the Fishing Industry and People’s Hopes
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- Family in Kudawella: Mother Bandumi, daughter Mayuri (14), sons Ishan (3) and Kishany (10), father Toyson Piyantiha. The village suffered utter devastation due to the tsunami catastrophe. The mother lost her five year old daughter in the disaster. © CBM
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After the tsunami devastated villages along the coastline of the Indian ocean, CBM was able to start relief measures early, both for the affected people with disabilities and for the general population. The reason: CBM has long established relationships with local partner organisation, that were already in place, when the catastrophe happened on December, 26th. Almost a year later, the aftermath of the disaster can still be felt by the local population: The tsunami caused severe injuries and disabilities to those who survived.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports: "At least five million people were affected in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Thailand, Maldives, Seychelles, Myanmar. The death toll exceeded 280,000 people, and more than one million persons were displaced as a result of he destruction."
CBM's immediate emergency relief has now developed into longer-term rehabilitation work. In Kudawella, a 6000-person village in the South of Sri Lanka, a total of 23 multi-day and one-day boats have been ordered by CBM’s partner Navajeevana. Thus CBM helps to restart small businesses in the fishing resort of Kudawella.
To go on with life is especially difficult for people being traumatized by the tsunami. Many have lost children or other relatives and friends. A sewing workshop and other small businesses help the jobless and traumatized people of Kudawella. The need, that occurred after the tsunami recently and the typhoon on the Philippines in 2004, has effected an addition to CBM’s canon of mandates: Mental Health Services have become a component of Community Based Rehabilitation work.
CBM's partner in Sri Lanka assists traumatized people in its long-established CBR-programme. In Kudawella 120 clients benefit from the psycho-social programme that is implemented in cooperation with Basic Needs Sri Lanka.
Further Information: Mental Health
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports: "At least five million people were affected in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Thailand, Maldives, Seychelles, Myanmar. The death toll exceeded 280,000 people, and more than one million persons were displaced as a result of he destruction."
CBM's immediate emergency relief has now developed into longer-term rehabilitation work. In Kudawella, a 6000-person village in the South of Sri Lanka, a total of 23 multi-day and one-day boats have been ordered by CBM’s partner Navajeevana. Thus CBM helps to restart small businesses in the fishing resort of Kudawella.
To go on with life is especially difficult for people being traumatized by the tsunami. Many have lost children or other relatives and friends. A sewing workshop and other small businesses help the jobless and traumatized people of Kudawella. The need, that occurred after the tsunami recently and the typhoon on the Philippines in 2004, has effected an addition to CBM’s canon of mandates: Mental Health Services have become a component of Community Based Rehabilitation work.
CBM's partner in Sri Lanka assists traumatized people in its long-established CBR-programme. In Kudawella 120 clients benefit from the psycho-social programme that is implemented in cooperation with Basic Needs Sri Lanka.
Further Information: Mental Health
Go back: News
