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Sri Lanka

Ambalantota

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Tsunami relief: Construction of a fishers’ community hall and establishment of a fishing livelihood program

Date Approved: 01.2005

This is the second grant to the Small Fishers Federation of Lanka (Sudeesa) from Seacology’s tsunami relief fund. It provides funding to replace a destroyed fishing community hall used by fishers for meetings. It will also be used to buy 88 small fishing canoes and sets of fishing gear for villagers who lost their gear in the tsunami.

Project Updates

May 2005

Half of the fishing canoes have been built and fishing nets distributed. Final construction and distribution is expected to be completed by July 2005.

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