"Help child survivors of war... Help heal my country," pleads aid agency chief

Aid agency World Vision is urging the international community to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help Sri Lanka by pledging millions of dollars to meet the critical needs of at least 60,000 child survivors of war.

Suresh Bartlett, National Director of World Vision Lanka, who recently returned from visiting camps in the North, said he was deeply troubled about the impact of the war on children and was worried that the global financial crisis and swine flu were taking the world's attention away from meeting their urgent needs. Read more ...