EU raises humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka
May 8th, 2011 - 6:00 am ICT by IANSBrussels, May 8 (IANS) The European Union has raised its humanitarian support to Sri Lanka by another 10 million euro (around $14 million, EuAsiaNews reported.
This will finance further assistance for internally displaced Sri Lankans, helping them to return to their homes, and ensuring that basic services are in place for the returnees, said a statement issued by the European Commission.
The additional resources will also bring humanitarian aid to vulnerable Sri Lankan refugees in India, and will reach the most affected victims of the floods that ravaged Sri Lanka’s eastern province earlier this year, it noted.
Many Sri Lankans who had been internally displaced by violence have returned home since the conflict ended in May 2009.
Still, some 75,000 refugees continue to lead a difficult life in camps in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, the statement said.
The EU’s executive body said it has been supporting vulnerable communities in Sri Lanka with humanitarian aid since 1992.
Since the end of the conflict in 2009, the European Commission said it has been catering for the humanitarian needs of internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka with a series of emergency financing decisions which total 14 million euro.
Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu have also been provided aid worth one 1 million euro by the European Commission for their protection, psychosocial support, water and sanitation and shelter.
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