Wednesday, June 3, 2009

SOS Children granted access to Sri Lankan IDP camps

SOS Children has become the first child care organisation to be granted access to internally displaced people (IDP) camps in north Sri Lanka by army personnel.

The news comes after national director Ananda Karunarathne and deputy national director Divakar Ratnadurai were permitted to visit the town of Vavuniya.

According to the charity, it has been given a ten-acre plot of land in order to construct temporary care shelters in conjunction with the Sri Lankan central engineering consultancy bureau. Read more ...

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