By Amantha Perera, Inter Press service News, Dec 23, 2009
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka, Dec 23 (IPS) – “We have been here for almost five years. So many promises have been made, but very few have been kept,” complains Mohideen Nafia, 22, one of the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami still living in a temporary facility in the coastal town of Kalmunai, located 300 kilometres east of the capital, Colombo.
Newly married Nafia would have preferred a house of her own with her husband. But at the moment she has to make do with what amounts to a shelter, a one-room unit in a government-provided disaster camp, which the couple shares with Nafia’s family of five and is located about a one kilometre from the beach.
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SRI LANKA: Five Years after Tsunami, Many Still without Shelter
By Amantha Perera, Inter Press service News, Dec 23, 2009
Children of families displaced by the 2004 Asian tsunami stand inside their tin-roofed shelter in the coastal town of Kalmunai.
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka, Dec 23 (IPS) – “We have been here for almost five years. So many promises have been made, but very few have been kept,” complains Mohideen Nafia, 22, one of the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami still living in a temporary facility in the coastal town of Kalmunai, located 300 kilometres east of the capital, Colombo.
Newly married Nafia would have preferred a house of her own with her husband. But at the moment she has to make do with what amounts to a shelter, a one-room unit in a government-provided disaster camp, which the couple shares with Nafia’s family of five and is located about a one kilometre from the beach.
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