TV3 visits GOAL in Sri Lanka, 2006

Irish broadcast journalist Collete Fitzpatrick from TV3 travelled to Sri Lanka in 2006 to report on the work of international aid agency, GOAL, two years after the tsunami devastated large parts of South East Asia on December 26th, 2004. GOAL undertook a massive recovery programme in the country in the aftermath of the tsunami. When it struck, GOAL immediately mobilised emergency relief teams to India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands and Indonesia. The Sri Lankan recovery programme was the largest undertaken in GOAL's history and earned the organisation universal praise for the speed, quality, and extent of its work, as well as for its cost effectiveness and judicious use of aid funding. Along with emergency provision of food, water and sanitation to 30,000 families, GOAL projects involved the building or rebuilding of 65 schools, the building of 300 houses, the maintenance of 1,350 shelters, the rehabilitation of six bridges, and the repair of 51 kilometres of road. GOAL also built four fully equipped fish markets and four fishery community centres, renovated 500 boats, rebuilt 40km of irrigation canals, repaired sluice gates, pumps and culverts, and planted 80,000 hardwood trees and 76,000 mangroves. For more information on GOAL's work in the developing world, please visit www.goal.ie

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• Sri Lanka
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