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Lifeline daily radio show #76 (28 May 2009)

  • Malaysian government supplies mobile health clinics to Vavuniya
  • Government to give school uniforms to students
  • Preventing epidemic diseases in Jaffna
  • Vanni orphans need families

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Lifeline daily radio show #75 (27 May 2009)

  • O/Level and A/Level exams postponed
  • Providing home for orphaned children of Vanni
  • A special team working to help find friends and relatives in Vavuniya camps
  • Reuniting orphan children with relatives

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Lifeline daily radio show #74 (26 May 2009)

  • Malaysian government supplies mobile health clinics to Vavuniya
  • More schools and job training to be done in Vavuniya camps
  • Counting IDP population in Puttalam
  • WFP “fully geared up” to supply food to the Vavuniya IDPs

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Lifeline daily radio show #73 (25 May 2009)

  • WFP to increase quality and quantity of food items to Vavuniya IDPs
  • Manager of the Bank of Ceylon North Province says IDPs in North losing bank documents and certificates: “We are planning to go back to those areas and bring details and proceed with our work.”
  • Central Province sends essential goods to Vavuniya
  • Opening of A9 road for public

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Lifeline print supplement #66

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  • Vanni IDPs waiting for a new start
  • NRC to help Eastern Province IDPs with legal documents
  • Declining livelihood in Trincomalee
  • Situation of pregnant mothers in Vavuniya camps
  • Interview with Sir John Holmes UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator: “Information for the humanitarian community is fundamental–it is life saving.” For those who have already escaped, we need to rapidly improve the material conditions in which they are living…”
  • Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): (“Amma”) (“Mother”) talks about mother’s love

Lifeline daily radio show #70 (22 May 2009)

  • A committee to handle resettlement plan in Vavuniya
  • UN Chief of staff Vijay Nambiar visits North
  • No civilians in the former war zone

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Lifeline daily radio show #69 (21 May 2009)

  • Government helps IDPs obtain birth and death certificates
  • Government to provide new transportation plan
  • Bank of Ceylon provides mobile banking to IDPs
  • IDPs get co-operative shops in Vavuniya camps

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Lifeline daily radio show #67 (19 May 2009)

  • More than 22,000 new IDPs arrived yesterday housed at the 5th welfare village in Vavuniya
  • Water shortage in Vavuniya welfare centers to be addressed
  • Government to provide text books to Vavuniya IDP students
  • Interview with the Vavuniya GA Mrs. P.S.M. Charles: Resettlement and humanitarian activities

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Lifeline daily radio show #66 (18 May 2009)

  • Vanni patients to be treated Vavuniya
  • Rehabilitation of IDP children in Vavuniya
  • Vavuniya IDP students to continue studies
  • Interview with Minister of Disaster Management and Human rights Mahinda Samarasingha: What next

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Lifeline print supplement #65

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  • Government to send child specialist to Vavuniya camps
  • Sarvodaya provides mine risk education to resettled villages in Batticaloa
  • Addressing food requirements of Vanni people
  • Lack of education equipments in Batticaloa Kaddaiparichan Vibulanandha Vidyalaya
  • Interview with Sir John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator: I wish we could make more progress towards the humanitarian cause of the people and to the conflict.”
  • Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): (“Katkai Nanrea”) (“Education”) talks about the importance education to the IDP children.

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