WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE,
SRI LANKA: An additional 200
ShelterBoxes are being sent to Sri Lanka to give emergency shelter to Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were forced to leave their homes by the recent
fighting in the country. The aid – which is due to arrive in the country on 21
June - will be sent to Menik Farm (Zone 3) in the Vanni region where ShelterBox
has already distributed 448 ShelterBoxes. “There is still a great need for
emergency shelter in the country,” says SRT member Laura Jepson who returned
from the country on 12 June. “Although the fighting has now ended, it will be
many months before most of the IDPs will be able to go back to their homes. The
conditions in the camps are very poor. They are very overcrowded.” ShelterBox is
working in Sri Lanka with local Rotarians, Habitat for Humanity, the
International Organisation for Migration and the United Nations. The latest
batch of aid will be distributed by ShelterBox Response Team members Tom
Chambers (UK), Sallie Buck (UK) and John Cordell (US).
