srilanka_projectsitemap.jpgIn April, Habitat Japan started two projects in the northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka in financial partnership with the Japan Platform. It is the third time for Habitat Japan to directly implement an oversea's project. We send three staffs from Habitat Japan to Sri Lanka and develop the projects, locally cooperating with Habitat Sri Lanka.
　
【Core Houses for Peacebuilding in the North】
Since 1986, the country has been divided by the ethnic conflict between the Sinhala, whose majority are Buddhists and constitute of about 70% of the country's population, and the Tamil whose majority are Hindus. The situation had evolved into civil war and many people in the northern and eastern areas were internally displaced. When the Sri Lankan military interference ended the war in 2009, many people returned from refugee camps to start a new life, but instead they only found their homeland ravaged and family members still separated. The people are living in temporary houses made with straw, decayed logs and branches and plastic sheets unable to keep the elements out.
　
srilanka_mannar_20110503.jpgHabitat Japan has started to respond to these internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Mannar district of the Northern Province, aiming to support human resettlement through building houses while preventing the frustrated citizens to resort back to another civil war.
　
【Shelter Kits for Flood Relief in the East】
In January and February this year, the eastern Sri Lanka suffered the flood caused by monsoon and 1.25 million people were victimized throughout the country. Habitat Japan plans to deliver about 250 shelter kits in the severely damaged Batticaloa district, and to support the affected households to build the emergency shelters and restore the damaged houses until about June.
　　
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Habitat Japan is now speaking out in an effort to gather donations in Japan to join in this recovery effort. Your kind support would be highly appreciated.
　
POSTAL BANK ACCOUNT
Account Number: 00100-2-278431
Account Holder: HFH Japan
　
*Please remember putting your name, address and "Sri Lanka" to inform us that your support should go to Sri Lanka.
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