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Issues of War affected people in Baticaloa Directed to Eastern Chief Minister
National
Fisheries Solidarity Movement work with war affected people in Baticaloa
district for few years. Specially widowed women and resettled people are our
concerns. We intervene through awareness raising on Social, Political and
economical issues they face and also to develop livelihood activities.
As
we are an organization that can not directly solve most of the community
issues, we planned to meet Eastern province Chief minister and direct the issues
to political authority. On 15th May 2012 we met the Mr
Shiwanesathurei Chandrakhnthan, CM of Eastern province and handed over the
community issues which were collected from five villages of Chenkaladi
divisional secretariat division. It included the following villages
Walicakandy, Kopavali,Thumpalachcholei, Kithul and Urukamam.
We
gathered the issues from the villages to a form and rechecked with village
leaders befor handover to CM. A petition signed by village heads were also
enclosed with it.
For
this event Mr. Anthony Jesudasan, (Overall coordinator of North and East Program
of NAFSO) Mrs. Lavina Hasanthi (Coordinator of Women Program of NAFSO), A.
Selvakumar (NAFSO voluntary activists –
Baticaloa district) and Mr. Prashanthan (member of Baticaloa town
council) were also partipated.
According
to the peoples’ information of five villages following are the main issues they
facing-
Number of families still live in Temporary hoses;- 584
Houses without toilet facilities;- 647
Widowed Women;- 184
Number of families have no proper water supply;- 780
Families without electricity;- 790
Number of families not included in “Samurdhi subsidies”
scheme;- 250
Chief Minister, Mr. S.Chandrakhanthan
given his positive words on the raised issues. According to him,
Houses will be provided through the
government housing scheme for these families and toilet facilities, electricity,
Samurdhi issues will be solved as soon as possible.
Specially Samurdhi will be provided soon,
to families in Thumalacholei, who have no information on there husbands after
the war.
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