Figure 01: Sri Lanka is away from quake prone regions (WEB ref.1 03)
Tsunami devastation
and the response of
Caritas Sri Lanka
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14 out of 25 districts
were affected (56%)
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# of Districts affected
14
Deaths
30,629
Women 30%
Children 50%
Men
20%
Injured Persons
16,236
Missing
4,356
IDPs
835,208
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Impact Assessment
• More than 100,000 buildings including permanent houses
were totally destroyed
• 195 education facilities -including schools, universities, and
vocational centres -damaged
• 97 healthcare institutions were damaged
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14 districts were affected.
men and women lost their sources of livelihood.
23,449 acres of cultivated land were affected
58 registered hotels were destroyed
16,479 boats were destroyed
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Response of Caritas Sri Lanka, Church, CBCSL
“Our journey with people”
• Support within the local Church network/”nonaffected to affected”
• Donations from other Caritas, Europe, USA
• Special professional team established
• Rescue operation (Youth & volunteers)
• Medical volunteers (Sri Lanka & outside)
• Psychosocial experts (Sri Lanka & outside)
• Media & communication
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EDUCATION
HOUSING
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Relief activities
• Over 39,117 persons received food, medicine and Non Food Item
• Over 5,711 temporary shelters and 7,024 transitional shelters
constructed
• Latrines and septic tanks were constructed and
water tanks
provided
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TRANSITIONAL SHELTERS
Trincomalee
Galle
Total
640
580
7,024
Jaffna
942
Seth Sarana
186
Batticaloa
4,862
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PERMANENT HOUSES *
Trincomalee
Galle
Total
1,238
614
10,713
Jaffna
Batticaloa
Seth Sarana
3,520
426
1,730
* Houses repaired + built
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PSYCHO-SOCIAL - TOTAL
157 Support
programs
4,962 benef. referred to
professional counselors
9,075 Individual
and group
counseling
Psycho-social
572,308 House visits
142 Play activities
10,342 participants
Trainings
9,426 benef. participating on Psychosocial programs
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“Our hardwork and your support”
• My name is Monika Shayamalee. I am married and
blessed with a son. We were very poor and living in
A small house near the sea shore in Beruwala.
• We were badly affected by the tsunami disaster in
2004. We lost all our belongings except our lives. We
had to live in a refugee camp for some time.
• At this stage Seth Sarana – Caritas Colombo came to
our assistance. We were given a new house from the Kumarigoda Housing Sheme,
Vocational Training and Financial Assistance to start a self employment.
• Thanks to Caritas Sri Lanka, we now live in a comfortable house with all the
facilities. My husband is now self employed and hiring out sound system.
• I am also self employed running tailoring shop. We have a very good income and
live happily as a family.
• We thank all of you who helped our community affected by Tsunami.
THANKS
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“Effect of twon disaster”
Mr. Alphones Kingsly Wilfred(Tsunami housing Beneficiary)
Maruthankeny /Vettilaikeny
In Tsunami
• I lost my 1 ½ & 2 1/2 years daughters, it was very painful.
• In 2006 Caritas provided permanent house and Danish INGO provided
fishing boat & engine.We started living in that house.
• From the Later part of 2006, we displaced several times due to war and
living in different IDP camps. In 2010 we were allowed to resettle our own
village.
• Presently I’m living with my four daughters in the same village.
• Luckily my house was not damaged during the conflict.
• I am thankful to Caritas HUDEC for the support which give the safety and
security for my daughters.
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Implementation
Methodology
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Sectoral approach
“From institutional to community participatory” – towards
“ownership in the process”
• Housing
 Temporary shelters – designed and done by Caritas DC/institutions
 Transitional shelters – designed by Caritas with the limited
participation of non-affected communities
• Permanent houses – designed in consultation with the affected
communities, (paradigm shift from contractor to owner driven)
• Livelihood
• From distribution of materials to voucher system (increasing the
documentation, decision making process gradually)
• Psychosocial: From community to individual counseling to
professional level in coordination with the Government Mental
Health Unit.
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Psychosocial
Policy
Human
Resource
Policy
Livelihood
Policy
Revision &
Establishment
of Policies
Housing
Policy
Finance
Policy
Procurement
Policy
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Developing new systems
PMS and
PASS Data
entry
(M&E)
“Money
market”
Communication
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Institutional Changes
• Organizational restructure
• CBCSL (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka)
• Tsunami Task Force (with professionals/purpose of good
governance)
 (Retired Justice, Senior Lawyers (P.C) Senior Chartered
Accountants, Consultant to IMF, Private sector Advisors)
• Finance Committee-Advisory committee to make policy
recommendation to TTF
• BOD – Executive Body
• Steering committee/Management committee – sector
coordination focus and for periodical reviews
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Beyond the Tsunami Waves
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
journey continues
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Lessons Learnt
• From the disaster
• From the responses and implementations
• From MOs collaboration and accompaniment
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From the Tsunami disaster
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Cultural practices (men & women’s dress)
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Fencing systems in villages (barbed wire)
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Lack of women leadership and dependency on
men/husband
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The time of the disaster hit the land (early morning)
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Density Vs intensity/impact force
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Method of construction of houses
Contributing factor for impact of disaster
• Red brick building
• Lack of maintenance
• Vertical side facing the sea (increase risk
• Lack of space for sea water passage
• Contributing factor for impact of disaster
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Construction techniques safeguard the
building during disaster
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Trees will reduce the speed of water
Banyan trees/tamarind trees/Cypress tress
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From the Operation/Response/Implementation
a) Usefulness s of the EARST team with experts
b) If existing policies and systems are updated periodically the post disaster response
become more effective and timely
c) Establish inter-religious forum/committee at ground level and design/work
through them specially in Multi ethnic and multi religious community. (it reduce
the inter community tensions and could practice “do no harm ” principal.
d) importance of preparation of the communities to learn about the survival
mechanism
* Re-design the housing structure;
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iv.
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with base concrete, plinth beam ring beams (technical drawings & photos
available)
location of the house in the land facing the sea in the coastal (risk) areas
build safety room is part of the house plan
allow the community to design the houses according to their cultural &
religious practices and believe
Parapet walls with holes/grills .. specially in the coastal belt (replacement
of barbed wire)
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• As a result of the Tsunami operations the CSL human
resource capacity was developed, especially in the field
of financial management, Project management &
psychosocial.
• Credibility and Visibility of CSL increased among the
public and the Government.
• Caritas Sri Lanka was recognized as one of the leading
and credible humanitarian organizations particularly
among the different ethnic and religious communities
overcame the prejudges about the Church among the
other religion communities.
• Developed a good partnership and coordination with
government authorities.
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From MOs collaboration & accompaniment
• Usefulness of the ERST team with sectoral
experts/specific sectoral experience personnel
from MOs is an added value
• Should have knowledge of local Church structural
& it’s working patterns
• Knowing the cultural practices and cultural
values could reduce the misunderstanding and
increase the public/community relationship (e.g.
Muslims, Hindus & Buddhists)
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• Change ……………..
• I am Zahira from Kathankudy, Eastern Province, in
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the Batticaloa district
I am happy to share my story with all of you
present here.
Due to the Tsunami disaster my house destroyed. I was totally
helpless.
During this time Caritas Batticaloa selected me as one of their
beneficiaries.
I was first given a tent as an emergency measure and subsequently
given a temporary house followed by a permanent house.
To maintain my livelihood I was given a sewing machine and also a
grant of Rs. 10,000. With such assistance I was able to develop my
livelihood.
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I have two children and my husband went abroad in 2007 finding employment but
has not returned. When he left my children were studying in the grades 4 & 5.
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During this time Caritas Batticaloa set up several self help groups and I was made
the leader of one of these groups.
• This has enabled me to interact with other community groups and help other
backward families to improve their quality of life.
• Sometime later in 2010 I got the opportunity to work as an volunteer to the
Animator working for Caritas Batticaloa in the Kathankudy DS division.
• The Director of Caritas Batticaloa appointed me as an animator – field officer.
• My daughter studied up to the GCE A – levels in commerce subjects and obtained
good results.
• She is at present studying to become a Mowlavi (a teacher cum
preacher).
• My son has also completed his A-levels and is at present studying at
University in the engineering faculty.
• Even though I have not received any support from my husband, with
the support of my relatives and my own efforts I have been able to
bring up my children to a good state in life.
• Caritas Batticaloa helped me and motivated me to come up in life. I
appeal to them to help more people like me, giving them the
confidence to come up in life.
• I seek the blessings of God so that this effort to help others will be
fulfilled.
• I also take this opportunity to thank the Director of Caritas Sri Lanka,
Caritas Batticaloa and you all the partners providing me the self
confidence to develop myself.
• THANKS
Challenges
• Coordination among the actors immediately
after the disaster.
• Developing/revising systems and policy, at the
same time responding to the post disaster
emergency situation.
• Unstable/unclear/non-practical policies of the
government (clearing goods, buffer zone,
minimum standards/constitution codes)
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Future trend in Sri Lanka and its
challenges
• Increase the type of disasters and its
frequencies
• Change of weather patterns/seasons and its
impacts on a) environment b) livelihood
• Landscaping
• Coping mechanism among the community is
very low(contrast/experience –situation of
floods after the drought within a month)
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“OUR MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED,
our journey with people continues”
CARITAS SRI LANKA
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Thank you
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