Sri Lanka: how DFID support is helping save lives

Over 280,000 people have been displaced following the recent conflict in Sri Lanka. The majority of these people are now living in large camps in and around the town of Vavuniya, in northern Sri Lanka. Humanitarian advisor Neil Barry recently visited some of the camps and reports for DFID on how funding provided by the UK is being used to help save lives. The UK government, through DFID (the Department for International Development), has allocated £12.5 million in humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka since September 2008, to help the International Red Cross, UN agencies and NGOs such as Oxfam and Medicin Sans Frontieres to provide emergency shelter, clean water and sanitation, and primary health care to those most in need. To find out more, please visit http://www.dfid.gov.uk/srilankacrisis

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Why is British taxpayers funding this? DFID needs to be binned.