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Updates on Tangalle, Sri Lanka (Part 2)

April 16, 2007 - Sri Lanka

Providing individual help to needy families:

Renting two homes and employing three families in these homes until they would find a permanent home (LKR 13,500.00 per month).
Helping a family to buy a spice grinding mill to originate an income to maintain two children as they were homeless and the father had lost his job (LKR 25,000.00).
Helping an old grandmother to buy a sewing machine to carry on her life with her orphaned grandchild (LKR 25,000.00).
Helping a father to buy a bicycle to continue to sell fish for his and his son’s daily living (LKR 6,000.00).
Helping a young father to build a pulling cart to sell snacks for his daily income (LKR 5,000.00).
Helping a father of a little kid to make the floor cement for the child to play (LKR 5,000.00).
Helping a grandmother to start a business making morning hoppers to support the seven family members living with her (LKR 9,500.00).
Helping a young father to buy a fishing katamaran to feed his two children (LKR 30,000.00).
Helping a young father to buy a second hand out-board engine to make it possible for him to do deep sea fishing again (LKR 60,000.00).
Helping a man to buy a second hand three-wheeler to continue his business and support his two small children (LKR 100,000.00).
Buying fishing nets for a fisherman who had lost them in the Tsunami (LKR 15,000.00).
Buying fishing nets for a second fisherman who had lost his nets in the Tsunami (LKR 12,500.00).
Helping a fatherless family of five (LKR 5,000.00 each month).
Supporting a fatherless family of four (LKR 3,000.00 each month).
Helping an old couple with their living expenses and medicine, and their widowed daughter to continue her coir rope making business (LKR 4,000.00 each month).
Helping a university student, whose father is half blind and cannot work (LKR 3,000.00 each month).
Helping a family to school two children (LKR 2,000.00 each month).
Helping a fisherman to buy a new boat and built a new house after losing everything in the Tsunami (LKR 400,000.00).
Buying a new boat (long distance) for a fisherman, who had lost it in the Tsunami (LKR 10,000,000.00).
Implementing a new place for 16 pre-school children.
Creating a hostel for 16 students.