UNICEF: Tsunami 5: Water and sanitation improve in Sri Lanka

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sri_lanka_52228.html

KARAKITIVU, Sri Lanka, 22 December 2009 KARAKITIVU, Sri Lanka, 22 December 2009 Jayawathis husband had just returned from his overnight fishing trip, and she was watching him prepare the catch in the front yard of their home in Karaitivu, on Sri Lankas east coast. Transferring the overflowing buckets of small silvery fish to a larger tub for salting, it looked like a good catch, but earning enough money from fishing is difficult here.

Five years after the tsunami, life is still challenging for Jayawathi and her family, but several home improvements have helped to ease the burden. Their house now has a toilet as part of UNICEFs efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene in the tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka. As part of the same effort, their neighbours received a new well.

UNICEF has also worked with local partners on larger ventures, such as a water supply project for hundreds of homes in a re-settlement area in Thirukkovil called the Mandanai Tsunami Resettlement Scheme. Recently completed on a nearby hillside, the Thirukkovil Water Supply Project will make a huge difference in the lives of ordinary people.

Five years on, life is certainly better for many thousands of families impacted by the tsunami.

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• Lanka
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• water
• sanitation
• children

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May God continue to bless your engagements and active help for the less fortunates also that they can help themselves and do not depend on money and gifts from the rich country s but that they can earn their own money and build their own houses and all they needMay God bless this woman who lost her son and give her peace and comfort.

Thank you for sharing and for your engagements.

*bow*

angela