Thursday, January 20, 2011

Can anyone help pirambadative ?

131 famlies, 600 children, 231 women and 180 men are in pirambaditive,40 widows included. Situated 8 km south of ottamadu, Valachchanai, Batticaloa district. This was a village we wrote you about. Today they said that they have a shortage of foods. The army had distributed buns and dhal (probably from their rations.) The food lories going on main road doesn't come to pirambadative says their community leader.

This village is isolated and worst hit from floods 2011 like tsunami, swollwing whole village for 5 days from January 11, 3 am.


This village is by lagoon and jungle area.
The floods rose to at least 10-12 feets making the village part of lagoon, which washed everything away, killing cattle, goats and chiken. They were an agricultural and fisher community. They lost their equipment, nets and kichen utencills. Most of them have oru udappu (only one dress), Ellam potchi (All went) they all say.

Immediately they have a need for rice.
Can anyone from anywhere help sharing their rice?



We think of children who might drop off from school, if they dont attend schools for 3 months. There are many food paid odd jobs for children or parents anyhow feed them. They wouldn't know the difference between going and not going to school. In the society we see it as a problem as they would become poorer and hunger, if they dont learn to think critical and collective, develop personal and socail skills to face the global challanges from climate change, health to economic crisis.

Rebuiding education needs to give the children new uniforms, shoes, books, pencils, text books. The education also need to extend to women, farmers, fisherman and senior learning to improve health, education, farming and lively hoods. ICT can definitely help. Already it is helping the recovery by communicating their problem to the world.



Can anyone help pirambadative ?
They need rice.


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