Lifeline paper supplement #71 (28 June 2009)
- 500 families reunited during the past two weeks
- New water tank to distribute 500,000 liters to IDPs
- A9 opens for business
- Dairy villages to provide livelihoods for Northern IDPs
- Interview with Resettlement and Disaster Management Minister Rishad Badiudeen, “It is not an easy task to resettle Muslims like Tamils .”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal):(“Thaayin Thavippu”) (“Distress of motherhood”) talks about the importance of caring pregnant mothers.
Lifeline paper supplement #70 (21 June 2009)
- Cooperative Shops to serve Vavuniya IDPs
- Temporary post offices in Vavuniya camps
- Ongoing educational activities of Vanni IDP students
- Plastic waste recycling at Manik Farm
- Interview with Mr. Adnan Khan, the Country Director of WFP: “The ideal circumstances would be to move on to individual cooking”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): (“Thanneerin Thavippu”) (“Water”) talks about the importance of sharing foods in camps.
Lifeline paper supplement #69 (14 June 2009)
- Special classes for special need children in Vavuniya camps
- Adoption process for orphans in Vavuniya
- General health services in Vavuniya camps
- Cookery classes for Vanni IDPs
- Interview with Deputy Election Commissioner of Jaffna District Mr. P. Kuganathan: “We have decided to send the voters’ registry to the camps in Vavuniya and Puttalam districts.”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): (“Oru Pidi Soru”) (“One handful rice”) talks about the importance of sharing food in camps.
Lifeline print supplement #68 (07 June 2009)
- Humanitarian efforts for Vanni IDPs in Vavuniya camps
- Future of Vanni orphans
- Second phase of reintegration of child combatants in Eastern Province
- Uplifting economy in East
- Interview with Menaca Calyaneratne, Save the Children Sri Lanka: “There will be a consultation on whether these children should continue to live in an orphanage or in alternative family care.”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): (“Nerudal”) (“troubled feeling”) talks about the feelings of IDPs
Lifeline daily radio show #109 (30 June 2009)
- Resettlement to be expedited in the North
- IDPs warned to drink only clean water to avoid disease
- Government Agents to assess damage in Mullaithivu
- Saving scheme for Vanni orphans
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Lifeline daily radio show #108 (29 June 2009)
- Vavuniya IDPs to get National Identity cards and birth certificates
- Inland fishing project starts in Vavuniya and Mannar
- Teachers and students begin identifying and helping trauma victims
- Vavuniya orphans get a new home
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Lifeline daily radio show #105 (26 June 2009)
- Government acts to develop Jaffna and Vavuniya Universities
- Charity to discuss future for catholic priests, nuns and orphan children in Vavuniya camps
- Keeping the toilets clean in Manik Farm
- Two doctors and four nurses care for 2,200 families in Sahanagama village
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Lifeline daily radio show #104 (25 June 2009)
- More than 9,000 elders have applied for release from camps
- Vanni patients returned to families
- Helping teachers and students cope with depression
- Community is key to demining task ahead
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Lifeline daily radio show #103 (24 June 2009)
- IDPs from Eastern Province traced in Vavuniya camps
- 24 hour fishing allowed in Mannar after 10 years
- IDPs to receive psychosocial counselling
- Eye diseases may be increasing among IDPs in Vavuniya
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Lifeline daily radio show #102 (23 June 2009)
- Vocations and trades being taught to IDP youngsters
- 5,000 expected to sit scholarship exams
- Government to give 700 fishing trawlers to the fishermen of Mannar
- Learning how to be children again through netball, karam and cricket
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