Save the Children – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Hard times in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north

By pearlaction | July 21, 2011 |

[BBC] It is a land that lost all its people. They retreated with the Tamil Tigers as the civil war swept through Kilinochchi more than two years ago. There are burnt-out husks of houses. [Full Story]

Save the Children launches emergency aid effort for Sri Lanka civil war victims

By pearlaction | February 17, 2009 |

[Save the Children] Save the Children has begun delivering life-saving aid to some of the thousands of civilians who have been able to flee the war zone in northern Sri Lanka. Nearly 28,000 people – many of whom have lost everything – have arrived in the district of Vavuniya, approximately 100km south of the fighting,…