Mobile offices to accelerate support
to tsunami affected enterprises

SUPPORT: Back to Business Project, in Association with RADA, CHA and Partnering District Chambers of the project will shortly launch in ?Back to Business Weeks? a week long mobile offices in strategic locations in all tsunami affected areas.
The first programme of the series will be held in Hambantota district beginning May 22 organised by the Hambantota District Chamber of Commerce.
 

Orphans Get Healing Touch for Tsunami Traumas
Kavidevi, 14, cries as her uncle begins to register her and her three sisters at a government centre for tsunami orphans in Nagapattinam, in southern India, in this January 17. file photo. The December 26 tsunami had a calamitous impact on children. At least a third of the 232,000 people who were killed or are still missing across a dozen Indian Ocean nations were children. Hundreds of thousands who survived are coping with the loss of family members, teachers and friends.

The day the waves shook Lanka
Tsunami waves rising higher and higher rolled in battering parts of Sri Lanka's coastline devouring everything under the sun leaving death and destruction in their wake. Around 40,000 human beings lost their lives - properties destroyed - children were left orphaned and families scattered. Tsunami hit areas were scarred with debris - like a demonised battle-field. One year ago this was the worst and the darkest day Sri Lanka ever saw - the day Mother Lanka cried.
 

Tsunami Early Warning System work moving into top gear

Tsunami - hit House in the

WILL there be another tsunami in the near future? This is the question that pops up in many Sri Lankan minds from time to time, since the December 26, 2004 catastrophe, which killed thousands and wantonly destroyed property in Sri Lanka and several other countries in the region. .

Post-tsunami psychosocial bubble: will it ever burst?

ON the 26th of December, we commemorated the first anniversary of the worst mass disaster that we have experienced in this country in our living memory. Much criticism still occurs with regard to the rehabilitation effort in the material infrastructure which was badly damaged.
Some of the pledges made by prospective donors have not materialized and some receipts have not been properly and expeditiously put to use.