Pictorial from Peraliya:
Ten months later, a village waits for the promised help
to arrive..
By Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai
An year has almost run its course and many people in Peraliya are still waiting to
receive the aid that was promised for rebuilding. Monthly assistance allowances
are not being given regularly as promised, according to the villagers. Many
villagers continue to remain in corrugated-iron roofed wooden transitional shelters.
Most men in this fishing village suffer from lack of fishing jobs and other
employment. The 100 meter buffer zone to rebuild has aggravated the problem of
finding permanent housing since many people do not want to move, say the
people of Peraliya.
A protesting poster for houses to be built beyond the post tsunami hundred
meters coastal buffer zone.
Twenty six years old K.P.Manjula Janaka makes replicas of boat with wood.."I
hardly earn any money. Everybody comes here to see the train. But nobody is
willing to help anybody" says twenty six years old K.P.Manjula Janaka.
[Courtesy of HumanityAshore]
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