Lifeline Daily Radio Show #203 (30 October 2009)
Around 1,000 people returned to Mullaithivu yesterday while the resettlement process in Kilinochchi is set to begin on November 6. In Vavuniya, Grade 5 IDP students have yet to receive their scholarship results and today’s radio drama deals with the lives of Puttalam IDPs who are commemorating 19 years in exile.
- Third phase of resettlement in Mullaithivu yesterday
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Grade 5 children in IDP camps to receive their results soon
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Drama: Ungal Kathaikal (Your Stories)
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #202 (29 October 2009)
Efforts to get 65,000 children in the East back to school and people who were displaced from Pattippalai in Batticaloa during the mid-1980s are to be resettled soon. The tourism sector in the East is growing thanks to several development projects while trade is increasing in Vavuniya.
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Efforts to get 65,000 children in Eastern Province back to school
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Families displaced from Pattippalai, Batticaloa to be resettled soon
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Tourism development continues in the east
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Trade rapidly increases in Vavuniya
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #201 (28 October 2009)
IDPs who have been resettled are eligible for Rs. 25,000 as shelter grants while pregnant mothers resettled in Jaffna will be provided with nutritious foods by Jaffna Regional Health Services Department. The first patient has travelled in an ambulance from Jaffna to Colombo via the A9 for the first time since August 2006 and IDPs in Puttalam talk about resettlement.
- Resettled IDPs given shelter grants
- First patient transported via A9 in ambulance
- Nutritional programme for pregnant mothers in Jaffna
- Community Voices: Puttalam IDPs talk about resettlement.
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #200 (27 October 2009)
Government starts vocational training for 1,705 IDP youths while 11 schools in Madhu resettled areas are to be reopened tomorrow. In Vavuniya, there has been a decline in the spread of communicable diseases and in Puttalam, steps have been taken to identify land for northern Muslim IDPs in their own areas.
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Government starts vocational training in camps
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Schools in Madhu resettled areas to reopen tomorrow
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Communicable diseases in camps on the decline
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Issues in identifying lands in the north for displaced Muslims
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #199 (26 October 2009)
Essential items sent from Europe to the IDPs have reached Vavuniya while the second batch of 1,000 people have been taken to Mullaithivu to be resettled. In Pattiththottam, Mannar, around 145 elders are being looked after in an Elders’ Home and the Defence Ministry has granted permission to St. John’s Ambulance in Jaffna to transport patients via the A9 from October 28.
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Essential items sent from Europe reach Vavuniya
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Second batch of around 1,000 people resettled in Mullaithivu
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Home established to accommodate elders from Vanni
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Defence Ministry permits St. John’s Ambulance to transport patients to Colombo via A9
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Voices from the Community: Hopes of a Puttalam IDP
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #198 (23 October 2009)
More than 1,000 IDPs from Mullaithivu were resettled yesterday as displaced students were admitted to a Colombo school. Our radio drama looks at the feelings of children of single parent families
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More than 1000 Mullaithivu IDPs resettled
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Drama: Ungal Kathaikal (Your stories): Thavippu (Longing for Love) focuses on the feelings of children when their single parents look for new partners.
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #197 (22 October 2009)
IDPs can replace lost legal documents and certificates with the help of the District Registrar’s office while the first set of IDPs from Mullaithivu have been resettled. In Vavuniya, traders are experiencing a rapid improvement economically and displaced students are being admitted to a Colombo school. Our Community Voices today discuss the 17,200 schoolchildren who are among the Puttalam IDPs.
- IDPs can apply to replace lost legal documents
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First phase of resettlement in Mullaithivu today
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Vanni displaced students admitted to Colombo school
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Vavunyia’s economy growing “rapidly”
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Community Voices: Education challenges for the Puttalam’s IDP schoolchildren
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Lifeline Daily Radio Show #196 (21 October 2009)
Avenues for development in Mannar are being explored by the National Chamber of Commerce while the government plans to train around 7,000 youths in the North and East in the construction sector. TB is affecting six people in Jaffna IDP camps and, In Vavuniya, documents are being provided to unmarried couples in IDP camps. Our Voices from the Community today provide an insight into the hopes and aspirations of IDPs in Puttalam.
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National Chamber of Commerce looks into opportunities to develop Mannar
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Six people in Jaffna IDP centres affected by TB
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Legal documents for unmarried couples living together in camps
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Nearly 7,000 youths to be trained in the construction sector
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Voices from the Community
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Lifeline print supplement #87 (18th October 2009)
These are the main stories of this issue:
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Britain calls for resettlement of IDPs before monsoon
- Northern Development : renovation of reservoirs and agricultural lands
- Child Focus Unit established in Vavuniya camp
- Rapid reduction in malnutrition among IDP children in Vavuniya camps
- Interview with UN Special Representative for the Human Rights of IDPs Prof. Walter Kalin:
- “My second concern is to very substantially move ahead with the restoration of freedom of movement ”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal):(“Petraal thaan Pillaya?”) (“Motherhood: where love begins and never ends”) talks about the elders care.
Lifeline print supplement #86 (11th October 2009)
These are the main stories of this issue:
- Family reunification in Vavuniya camps
- Government has made arrangements to reunite the IDPs with their relatives who are in Vavuniya district.
- PSA – Drainage maintanence
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O/L examination preparation for the Vanni displaced students
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No more IDP camps functioning in Batticaloa District
- Interview with UN Special Representative for the Human Rights of IDPs, Prof. Walter Kalin: “it is time for those who are identified as not being dangerous elements to be allowed to move out”
- Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal):(“Uthavum Karangal”) (“Helping hands”) talks about the rights of children.
