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Turning Around The Tsunami: UN-HABITAT Builds More Than HousesIn the Ampara district, on Sri Lanka’s east coast, UN-HABITAT/ RCIS funded by the Norwegian People’s Aid helps 475 families who found themselves stranded at different stages of rebuilding the homes they lost to the 2004 tsunami.......(Read
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World Habitat Day 2008.......(Read
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 Housing for Vulnerable Tsunami Hit Families in Jaffna District: Polykandy West Polykandy West in Jaffna District in the North of Sri Lanka is a small community of fifteen (15) most vulnerable families. These families who were earning a meager income as conservancy laborers at the Local Authority, had no proper shelter and were living in small makeshift shelters along the beach..........(Read More)
Relocating Colombo District Tsunami Victims: Kahawitagehena, Kalutara District
An unfortunate aspect of the aftermath of the Tsunami of December 2004, is the predicament faced by thousands of families who lived along the coast in the Colombo District. The makeshift houses and shanties of these families who occupied reservations along the beach and the railway line were completely destroyed.......(Read
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Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC Provides gifts to Tsunami Affected Families
Japanese Red Cross Funded Full
Grant Project for Colombo District Tsunami Affected Families.
The Indian Ocean Tsunami waves hit the Sri Lankan
Costal belt on the 26th of December 2004. While the majority
of the country has recovered from this disaster, the worst
of its kind in the history of the isle, there are still quite
a few victims left behind. One would hardly expect the commercial
and administrative heart of Sri Lanka, Colombo district to
be still reeling from the effects of the catastrophic event
which left over 100,000 families' homeless..........(Read
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Australian Red Cross Lends
a Helping Hand to A Tsunami Hit Orphan Ten year old.
Ajmeer Khan was a regular playful 10 years old, a grade 5
student of the Al Jalal Vidyalaya in Sainthamaratu. He lived
with his parents at Hospital Road, Sainthamarathu in Kalmunai,
Ampara district on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka.......(Read
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Tsunami Goodwill Prevails: Donation of Cricket gear from Children of Australia to Children of Sri Lanka
UN HABITAT Sri Lanka with the assistance of M/S Bovis Lend Lease of Australia has collected a large consignment of cricket gear donated by school children in Australia to be gifted to children in Sri Lanka.......
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Sri Lanka slums to get facelift with UN, private sector help
UN-HABITAT has teamed up with Sri Lanka's urban development ministry to improve living conditions of low income families living in the capital city's slums.
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 Kalifapura Housing Scheme Declared Open
Kalifapura Scheme consisting of 60 houses in Moragoda Ela, Galle
was declared opened by Mr. Abdullah Al-Mahmood of the Red Crescent
Society, UAE on 30th January 2007. This scheme for the families
affected by the tsunami was implemented by UN-Habitat with funding
by the Government and the Red Crescent Society of the UAE........
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UN-HABITAT Donates A Gully Bowser to Galle Municipality
A tractor mounted gully bowser was donated to the Galle Municipal Council by the UN-HABITAT recently. His Worship Kelum Seneviratna taking over the equipment stated........
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 Sri Lanka Celebrates World Habitat Day
2006
Sri Lanka celebrated World Habitat Day with partcipation of governemnt focal points, UN Habitat,
Local Authorities, International and Local NGO's, school children and local communities.........
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UN-HABITAT and Government of Sri Lanka Sign MOU (Vancouver, 21 June 2006)
UN-HABITAT and the Government of Sri Lanka on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding targeting slum upgrading in the Asian nation........
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Foundation Stone Ceremony for Knorr-Bremse Sponsored Village at Sainthamarathu, Ampara (17th May 2006)
A ceremony was held on Wednesday 17th May 2006 to celebrate the commencement of construction of 75 new houses in Sainthamaruthu, Ampara. The reconstruction is funded by a German company, Knorr-Bremse Global Care (KBGC) and implemented by UN-Habitat. ........ (Read More)
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Cross Red Crescent Movement commit to new tsunami housing partnership
with UN HABITAT(13 March 2006); Today, March 13, 2006
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Sri
Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), the International Federation
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) and UN
HABITAT, marking the beginning of a collaboration that will
help thousands of tsunami affected families....... (Read More)
UAE to build 1,000 homes for
Sri Lanka tsunami victims (27 January 2006);
The Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates this week
signed two agreements with UN-HABITAT to provide funding for the
construction of 1,000 houses in areas of Galle, Trincomalee, Ampara
and Kattankudy devastated by the December 2004 tsunami killer
wave....... (Read More)
UN-HABITAT Executive Director,
Dr Anna Tibaijuka's visit to Sri Lanka (20 - 21 October 2005);
Dr. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director UN-HABITAT visited Sri
Lanka on 20 to 21 October 2005, at the Invitation of the Minister
of Housing and Construction, Mrs. Feriel Ashraff. The main purpose
of her mission was to review the Post Tsunami Reconstruction
programme is Sri Lanka....
Rebuilding Community Infrastructure
and Shelter; - UN-HABITAT program to build back better,
assisting tsunami-affected communities in Galle.....
Women's Bank World Habitat
Day Celebrations Colombo, Sri Lanka; - On October 3rd
2005, World Habitat Day was celebrated in Colombo on a grand
scale. The events were based on the theme "Millennium Development
Goals and the City". The Women's Bank (Sri Lanka Women's Development
Services Cooperative Society), a micro finance organization.....
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