Moving from relief to rehabilitation…...
LEADS spends over $500,000on providing emergency relief to IDP’s in Northern/Eastern Sri LankaDry Rations/kitchen utensils $96,933Community Cooking :$124,705Non food items : $107,000Sack gardens : $13,800Emergency Shelter/temp:$136,000Education assistance : $4000Support costs : $96,000 As at February 25th , 99,066 persons still remain in IDP camps in Mannar, Jaffna and Vavuniya. 183,755 persons have been released to either their original homes, host families, and institutions. LEADS too completed all assigned emergency relief activities as at end December and began work with resettled communities beginning in Jaffn
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Arriving back home….As at 20 May :64,093 persons remain in temporary camps in Jaffna and Vavuniya.236,755 people have been released or returned in Vavuniya, Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi,Mullaitivu, Trincomalee,Batticaloa,Ampara,Polonnaruwa and Kandy. Source : Joint Humanitarian update : OCHA LEADS continued its work with over 1000 returning families in the districts of Mannar, Jaffna, Mullaithivu and Killinochchi.The sectors of work includes restoration of water sources, construction of transitional shelter for 
LEADS’ work in Trincomalee– Pulmoddai campAccording to Government sources, 2804 persons are yet at the Pulmoddai camp as at Nov 25th 09. Over a period of some 7 months LEADS has provided clothes, hygiene packs, baby packs, NFRI’s and dry rations for up to 2200 families, essential medicine for Trinco base hospital and K’gala hospital where those who were injured were being treated. LEADS will complete all emergency relief activities here by Dec 31st 2009. LEADS’ work in Jaffna campsThe feeding programme which was commenced at the TLC’s at Ramavil and Kaithday camps which was to end in Dec, had to be halted since children along with their families were been releas 
TrincomaleeLEADS continues with the provision of Non food relief items and baby packs for families in the Pulmoddai camp in Trincomalee. Special utility packs were provided for 245 disabled persons who were released by the hospital after having received treatment. These packs contained a foldable mattress, clothes, plastic bucket for storage of water, and a hygiene pack. 533 baby packs too were provided and items categorized age wise in 2 separate kinds of packs. With electricity provided only for the perimeter of the camps, LEADS provided individual ‘hurricane lamps’ for all 2241 families in the 3 camps in Pulmoddai. JaffnaA feeding programme for some 2089 children at two temporary lea 
Latest recorded statistics of those displaced since October 2008 stand at *283,537 persons. Focus is now to construct emergency/transitional shelter for families in order to ease the congestion in camps. *As per OCHA sitrepTrincomaleeIn Trincomalee, LEADS is making arrangements to distribute a second lot of tea leaves and milk powder to families. The distribution of hygiene packs is also planned especially for elderly and children in the coming weeks. JaffnaThe construction of the 101 emergency shelters and 5 common building blocks has been completed in Kaithady. LEADS also undertook the provision of breakfast for all persons numbering 11,094 in the 9 camps in Jaffna for 8 days in Ju 
Situation overview With more systematic registering of persons taking place, registered number of persons who have crossed over to Government controlled areas since October 2008 now stand at 280,580 persons. Of these, 278,263 persons are those in accommodated in temporary camps and 2317 persons in various hospitals. 1,916 people have been released from temporary camps into host families and elders’ homes as of 1 June 2009. The majority of these people are elderly, people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable groups.The government has stepped up releases of certain categories of persons with special needs, including the elderly and pregnant women, to specialized institutions. Prog 
TrincomaleeFurther to what was reported as at May 1st, LEADS has continued to provide emergency relief for 1731 persons in Pulmoddai in the form of 10 water storage tanks with 100ltrs capacity each, hygiene packs including sanitary wear for women, nutrition support for pregnant and lactating mothers as well as breakfast and dinner for 1800 persons at the initial stages. Requests have just come in for the need of pillows, tea leaves and milk powder to provide a mid day cup of tea, for 5000 persons which LEADS will send out early next week. As at 7th May '09, 5680 persons have been housed in the Pulmoddai camps. These families are however set to be shifted to Vavuniya soon, given that thes 
