The meeting with widows on standard of resettlement and analyze the existing 

situation of them

Place- Fisheries cooperation’s community hall in Punakari

Participants- 30

Covered areas- Nachikuda, Pallikuda, Irenamathanagar, Kiranchi, Valepadu

Basic information of five villages 

The village	The date of came back to the village after the war	Number of family members before the last war	Number of existing people
Nachikuda	2009.09. 07	360	650(Came back Muslim people displaced in 1990)
Pallikuda		450	219(Rest of people have gone to Jaffna)
Irenamathanagar		289	320( Muslim people came back to resettle)
Kiranchi		507	430
Walepadu		247	257

 Information about widows 

Name of village	Number of widows due to the last war	Other reasons	Total widows
Nachikuda	15		75
Pallikuda	40		67
Irenamathanagar	32		53
Kiranchi	-		-
Valepadu	27		40

 The situation of resettlement conducted by the Government

1.      People were able to settle in their own lands

2.      12 sheets and 06 poles were provided by IMO for the people

3.      43 houses in Irenamatahanagar  and 30 houses in Valepadu have been built b by the organization of CARITAS

4.      Most of other families live in temporally houses

5.      Toilet and water facilities are not supplied for above people

6.      Although the government provided dry ration for 6 months  it does not extant  furthermore

7.      120 small boats were provided for fishermen by the government but total requirement is 2300

8.      The government did not yet stabilize proper plane to build up income generation ways for the people. Most of them works as labours and carpenters in many places.

9.      Some sewn machines were provided for widows by one of the organizations but the widows were not given a training or any knowledge about the marketing system.

The major problems-

1.      Some people who are coming from Gurunagar and Mannar use destruction fishing gears especially Trolling method.

2.      Lack of basic facilities (Toilets and water facilities)

3.      Insecurity of widows

4.      Fear of the people due to the grease devil

5.      The government has no any proper plan to provide basic facilities for the people

According to the community leaders, they thought that it is better to be in the camp than being without any rights. People have no ability to express their point of view in existing  political context and people are being with fear. Therefore most of people have to live hiding their sorrow.

Future plans-

1.      To  select the 40 widows for providing dry ration

2.      To arrange an awareness program on Food Sovereignty and provide dry ration on 5 th of October.

3.      To arrange an expose visit in Kilinochchi between Northern and Southern people