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| Monday, 3 January 2005 |
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Oxfam in Sri Lanka will spend over Rs. five hundred million (2.5 million Sterling Pounds) in the next six months and the same again in the following 18 months as part of a rehabilitation programme for the affected areas. Speaking from Colombo, Phil Esmonde, Oxfam Country Programme Manager, said: "Oxfam aid will be channelled through a number of operational bases and our partner network. Today we are opening a base in the South between Matara and Hambantota and we will also use our existing bases in the North and East, which were set up to provide humanitarian relief in response to the conflict. "Our immediate relief effort, which has been ongoing since the Tsunami struck, is focused on the provision of clean drinking water and the construction of toilets. The provision of temporary shelter and of items such as sleeping mats, bed sheets, buckets, soap, matches, candies, and sanitary napkins." (These items make up non food relief items packs (NFRI packs). Continuing Esmonde said: "Oxfam takes an integrated approach to relief which includes the specific needs of women, hygiene education, food and nutrition and respect for the dignity of those people receiving assistance." "After the initial six months period is over we will be using a minimum of 500 million Rupees (2.5 million Sterling Pounds) towards a rehabilitation programme which will be designed to help the affected communities recover. "We are shocked at the devastation caused by Sunday's Tsunami, but are determined to put Oxfam's emergency response experience to good use to help the communities and people we have worked with in Sri Lanka over many years." |
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