{"id":4176,"date":"2019-07-13T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2019-07-13T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:05:51","slug":"living-conditions-in-two-villages-of-batticaloa-district-and-chrfs-timely-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4176","title":{"rendered":"Living conditions in two villages of Batticaloa District and CHRF’s timely support"},"content":{"rendered":"

When AssistRR visited Sri Lanka in March 2019, Dr Namasivayam (Sivanarulillam) asked AssistRR to visit a couple of villages in Batticaloa District to assess their needs. As a result,\u00a0we visited Elichchi & Singarathoppu villages near Vantharumoolai on Sunday, 17th March. There are 65 families including women and children living in Elichchi village\u00a0without a single toilet,\u00a0proper shelters and without access to good quality water for their daily needs. A few photos showing their toilet,\u00a0pre-school\u00a0and a well are given below. First photo given below is their typical\u00a0toilet covered by coconut leaf tiles (or kiduku in Tamil). They dig a hole, use it for passing motion in the morning, and then close it. It is their permanent place, move from one spot to anther within that small space. \u00a0Very hard to imagine how they manage their\u00a0day-to-day morning\u00a0rituals in this day and age.\u00a0Second photo is their dilapidated\u00a0preschool building. Third photo is their typical well. A metal drum is inserted into the ground\u00a0to stabilise the well. Water is stained with metal corrosion. They use this water for cleaning, bathing, and farming. They walk a long distance to fetch drinking water as the water from these wells is contaminated with metal corrosion.\u00a0Please click here to view more photos of their living conditions.<\/a><\/p>\n

We shared the story with like minded organisations. Mrs\u00a0Shanthanadevi Kaneshanathan\u00a0of Children Hunger Relief Fund (CHRF) from UK immediately responded and promised to\u00a0fund wells for the 65 families in Elichchi Village. We\u00a0received quotations of Rs\u00a050k – 70K from\u00a0local contractors\u00a0for\u00a0one well. However, our Sri Lankan NGO\u00a0President, Eng Henry Amalraj, came up with a design and plan to construct one well for Rs 35k.\u00a0Construction of these wells are progressing very well with the support of CHRF. We are\u00a0grateful to CHRF for coming forward and for\u00a0solving their water\u00a0problem permanently. In particular, we express our\u00a0gratitude\u00a0to\u00a0<\/b>Mr\u00a0Krishanthan Jogeeswaran\u00a0UK, whose donation of \u00a35000 to CHRF was\u00a0utilised towards this project. This donation of \u00a35000\u00a0enabled the construction of 31 wells. We received a photo recently after the completion of a well. The house owner immediately after the completion started having a\u00a0shower with his clothes on (track bottom and shirt). It shows how eager they have been to have a well in their lands. Following our visit, Henry Amalraj also held talks with the National\u00a0Housing\u00a0Development Authority (NHDA) regarding houses and\u00a0toilets for these families. NHDA have now started building houses and toilets using government funds. More photos for the progress made so far are given here.<\/a>\u00a0These photos show\u00a0progress of house\u00a0building in the village and construction of concrete rings for ring wells.\u00a0Assist RR will renovate\/rebuild the pre-school soon.<\/p>\n

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When AssistRR visited Sri Lanka in March 2019, Dr Namasivayam (Sivanarulillam) asked AssistRR to visit a couple of villages in Batticaloa District to assess their needs. As a result,\u00a0we visited Elichchi & Singarathoppu villages near Vantharumoolai on Sunday, 17th March. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}