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Current News, Events and Visitors
| – | Call for Proposals |
'Force of Nature Aid Organization is currently accepting proposals for their next grants approval phase (April-June 2008). Interested parties are welcome to submit a Letter of Inquiry using the format available on their website.' |
| – | Tsunami Early warning system put to the test |
Sewalanka’s community based disaster risk reduction (DRR) program underwent its first real test on Tuesday, 9 September when, following a major earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, the national disaster warning centre issued an official tsunami warning. The warning sparked panic in a number of coastal areas but two groups of villages in Kalutara and Habantota had been preparing for such an event since the inception of Sewalanka’s DRR initiative in 2006. |
| – | Sewalanka Foundation employee killed in Hikkaduwa bus bomb |
| Sewalanka Foundation has confirmed the death of a staff member who was traveling on a passenger bus which was blown up in a bomb attack on Saturday, 6 January. The explosion killed 11 and wounded 40. |
| – | September 2006: IDPs return to Muttur Town |
| Government figures indicate that 59,723 individuals from 51 shelter camps across six secretariat divisions have returned to their homes in Muttur Town. |
| – | September 2006: Sewalanka Foundation employee murdered in Karaveddy, Jaffna |
| Sewalanka Foundation has confirmed the deaths of a staff member and his mother, murdered by an unidentified armed group at their home in Jaffna on 1 September 2006. |
| – | August 2006 : Aid workers killed in Muttur, Trincomalee |
| Sewalanka Foundation Chairman Mr Harsha Kumara Navaratne has expressed the condolences of Sewalanka's management and staff to the families of 17 aid workers murdered in Muttur, Trincomalee. |
| – | August 2006: Emergency aid for IDPs |
| The number of people displaced since April 2006 now stands at 204,602* as fighting between government forces and the LTTE continues in the north and northeast of Sri Lanka. |
| – | July 2006: Sewalanka staff members join pilgrimage |
| Sewalanka Foundation once again joined in the annual tradition of the Pada Yatra pilgrimage in July this year, with over 225 staff members coming together from districts across the Island to participate. |
| – | December 2005: One year on... |
| One year after theTsunami hit the coastline of Sri Lanka, Sewalanka Foundation Chairman Mr Harsha Kumara Navaratne remembers those who lost their lives, and reflects on the past year as survivors begin to rebuild their lives. |
| – | September 2005: Sewalanka Foundation's Tsunami newletter available now. |
| Sewalanka Foundation's Chairman, Mr. Harsha Kumara Navaratne reflects on the work completed during the first six months after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka on 26 December 2004. |
| – | August 2005: Sri Lankan President awards Sewalanka Foundation. |
| Excellency the President of Sri Lanka presented Sewalanka Foundation an award for its contribution in assisting those communities affected by the Asian Tsunami. Specifically, the award acknowledges that Sewalanka significantly contributed to the overall national Tsunami response by constructing 23% or 10,799 of the island’s total transitional shelter requirement. |
| – | July 2005: Sewalanka building 23% of transitional shelter island-wide, National. |
| Sewalanka Foundation is building 23% of the required 47,137 transitional shelters in the 11 tsunami-affected districts. Six months on and Sewalanka Foundation has completed 87% of shelters planned |
| – | June 2005: Appeal Fund - Hari Children Home, Batticaloa |
| “Batticaloa Sewalanka has been performing a very valuable and important service without pomp and pageant. Sewalanka has not only given hope but also concrete contribution to the Tsunami recovery efforts of the people of Batticaloa and its future generations”. |
| – | External Articles ( available soon ) |
