Lifeline Daily Radio Show #18 (31 March 2009)
- IDP information to be shared with the International community
- Displaced people of Kudumbimalai GS division, Batticaloa to resettle today
- Pathaviya hospital Trincomalee to be developed
- Early learning facilities for the Vavuniya IDP students
Lifeline print supplement #58
- Vavuniya health and education update
- Six mobile health clinic service in Vavuniya IDP camps
- Social Service and Social Welfare Minister Duglas Devanandha Visits IDPs at Vavuniya
- Ongoing food and medicine distribution to Vanni
- Interview with the American Ambassador Mr. Robert Black: “We shall encourage our friends in the government to work cooperatively and to consult local and international NGOs…”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): “Emathu Kadamai” (“Our duty”) talks about the cultural disorder.
Lifeline Daily Radio Show #14 (27 March 2009)
- Menic farm construction work to complete by end March
- IDPs resettled in Santhoshapuram, Muttur East to receive basic necessities.
- 14th Evacuation process
- Lifeline interviews the Eastern Province agricultural, livestock, handloom and fishing development minister Mr. Thuraiyappa Navaratnaraja: Eastern Province development plans
Lifeline Daily Radio Show #12 (26 March 2009)
- New evacuation of patients from the Vanni to take place tomorrow
- Health related books distributed to Vavuniya IDPs
- Yal Devi Train to resume its service from Colombo to Jaffna
- Lifeline interviews US Ambassador Robert Blake (Part 02): Development of the East
Lifeline daily radio show #11
- Nearly 400 teachers at IDP camps to receive salary
- Accommodation for dependents and assistants of patients
- Psychosocial assistance from UNICEF to help children and women in IDP camps
- Lifeline interviews US Ambassador Robert Blake on US foreign policy and Sri Lanka
Lifeline Print Supplement #57
- Ongoing humanitarian assistance in Vavuniya
- De-mining in Jaffna to continue
- Resettlement of Kudumbimalai IDPs
- Mobile banking service to Vavuniya IDPs
- Interview with Adnan Kahn, Representative and Country Director of WFP in Sri Lanka: “We are providing food commodities and we are a part of communal cooking programs that are going on”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): “Vethumbum Manangal” (“Grieving hearts”) talks about the problems of working women.
Lifeline Daily Radio Show – 20 March 2009
- More patients to Pulmoodai, Vavuniya and Mannar hospitals
- Government to provide 24 hour health service for Vanni IDPs
- Food and medicine to the Vanni IDPs
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show – 17 March 2009
- Minister Douglas Devananda meet education officers in Vavuniya
- 11th evacuation process
- Food assistance to Vanni
- Six mobile health clinics to Vavuniya
- Interview with the Secretary of Resettlement Ministry U.L.M. Haleeldeen on Communication gap in Vanni
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Lifeline Print Supplement #56
These are the main stories on this week program…
- Indian government assists to build new hospital in Pulmoddai
- Education in India for the IDP students
- IDPs registration in Batticaloa
- Interview with the ICRC Health Coordinator Ms. Morven Murchison:“There is not enough drinking water in the Putumattalan area and they end up moving back inland in search of water. The lack of clean water is a major humanitarian concern.”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): “Panpaadu Enbathu” (“Culture is..”) talks about the importance of Tamil culture
