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105 Refugee Students get hall tickets for GCE(O/L) |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| 105 Refugee Students get hall tickets for G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O Level) examinations for Sri Lankan refugee students in Chennai from 10 to 20 December 2007. |
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We have become engineers and doctors |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Bridget is one of many Tamil refugees living in India. After fleeing Sri Lanka in 1984, she was able to continue her education in India. |
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Improving living conditions in Sri Lanka |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Improving living conditions in Sri Lanka. The European Commission Humanitarian Department (ECHO) has provided a grant to DanChurchAid who has been responsible for the implementation of the project in partnership with a local NGO OfERR Ceylon. |
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Visual Mission - Post Tsunami Rehabilitation |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Visual Mission: Post-tsunami school rehabilitation in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (OfERR Ceylon) |
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World Peace Day -2007 |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| International Peace Day -2007. The Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai and the Organisation for the Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR) observed the World Peace Day on 21st September 2007 in Chennai by planting a Peace Tree at the Chancery Premises. |
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Sri Lankan Refugees gesture to Tsunami hit people |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Sri Lankan refugee's gesture to tsunami-hit people. Handing over certificate to tsunami- affected woman those completed training imparted by the OFERR at Parangipettai. |
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Private World Relief's Development Fund |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| The dream of returning home. PWRDF Partner responds to new refugees fleeing violence in Sri Lanka |
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Spirulina cultivation: low investment, high income |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Spirulina is a nutritious protein food supplement and is also used in the manufacture of several medicines, and cosmetics. |
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We are grateful to the people of India |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| "We are grateful to the government and the people of India," says Chandrahasan, that when you have millions of people living below the poverty line you still spare food for us. |
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Tamils brave risks for better life |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Priyardarshini is holding her eight-month-old baby, Yadushika. They have just arrived on the southern shores of the southern India state of Tamil Nadu, and the journey from sri Lanka nearly cost them their lives. |
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Learning from empowerment of Sri Lankan Refugees |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Some 65,000 Tamil refugees from conflict in Sri Lanka live in 133 camps in the India state of Tamil Nadu. |
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A future seeded with promise |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| A future seeded with promise. Adele Finney, Communications Co-ordinator with the Primates World Relief and Development Fund, wrote the following reflection shortly after last December’s tsunami disaster |
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Refugees as citizens |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Refugees as citizens. Parliamentarians in Sri Lanka agree to enact legislation to confer citizenship on refugees living in Tamil Nadu. |
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Sanctuary seekers are nobody's people |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Sanctuary seekers are nobody's people. No country, no home, no money and for some not even citizenship. What does the future hold for over 90,000 Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu? |
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Sri Lanka refugee students to sit for GCE(O/L) |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| The Sri Lanka G. C. E. Ordinary Level Examination for displaced Sri Lanka students from the refugee community in Tamil Nadu, will be held in Chennai from 10th to 20th December, 2007 with the assistance of the Government of Tamil Nadu. |
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OFERR assists affected Trincomalee students |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| OFERR assists affected Trincomalee students. OFERR- Ceylon) has donated thirty-three bicycles of tsunami affected students in Trincomalee district |
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Such a long journey |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| This has been the century of the refugee and June 20 is World Refugee Day Among the many who have sought refuge here are Sri Lanka Tamils and Tibetans. |
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We are better off without the LTTE |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| S.c. Chandrahasan is the son of Samuvel Selvnayagam, a Tamil leader who was known as the Mahatma Gandhi of Sri Lanka. |
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Rooted Advocacy, Capacity Building with OfERR, South India |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| The Organisation for Eelam Refugees Repatriation, (OfERR), is a Sri Lankan Tamil self-help organisation, based in Chennai, south india. |
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Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu open up |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| Chennai, 26 February, (Asiantribune.com): Reports revealed that history was made when 15 Sri Lanka refugees living in Tamil Nadu opened bank accounts at the Bank of Ceylon branch in chennai on 25th February 2008. |
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We walk without fear here - A Ganesh Nadar in Mandapam |
Date: 2009-02-17 |
| As Sri Lanka heads for yet another civil war, Tamil refugees have begun fleeing the fighting and taking shelter in Tamil Nadu. |
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Lankan Tamils hottest issue in poll-bound TN |
Date: 2009-05-08 |
| Sujatha, Shriradha or David Muttu (all names changed) are not voters of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Instead, they are among the 75,000-odd faces that portray the hottest political issue of poll-bound Tamil Nadu as all parties try to swing sentiments in their favour talking about them. |
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Sri Lanka war survivors battle with new lives |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| It's called a "welfare village," but the heavily armed guards who surround the tented camp seem more concerned with containment than protection. |
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Sri Lanka to rehabilitate child soldiers |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| The Sri Lankan government had told the United Nations that it will reintegrate former child soldiers into society as productive citizens in view of the conclusion of the island's long drawn-out civil war, the presidential office said Sunday |
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Agony in Sri Lanka refugee camp |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spent Saturday in Sri Lanka pressing for political reconciliation and full humanitarian access for displaced people in camps, following Colombo\\\'s declaration of victory over Tamil Tigers rebels. |
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Despair among Sri Lankan refugees |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| In Sri Lanka they're known simply as IDPs, or Internally Displaced Persons. The true figure of the total number of war refugees is unknown but the UN now calculates that 192,000 people have fled the conflict zone in north Sri Lanka in recent weeks.
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A Catastrophe for Sri Lankan Children trapped in Northern Conflict Zone |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Engulfed by gunfire, Tharshini, her husband and their two-week-old baby daughter, Anandi, plunged into the lagoon. Caught amid intense fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government troops, the new parents were making a desperate bid to escape the conflict zone. |
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Sri Lanka IMF war row shows geopolitics matters |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Sri Lanka's apparent difficulty securing a $1.9 billion IMF loan with its conduct in its civil war becoming a key sticking point is a rare glimpse into how geopolitical importance can influence multilateral aid. |
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Families trapped in Sri Lanka camps fear for missing children |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Up to a fifth of refugee Tamil children have been lost or abducted, reports Andrew Buncombe from Colombo. In a world where people had lost everything, she held up the photograph as if it were the most precious thing imaginable. |
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Some 350 Mothers To Deliver Babies In Sri Lanka IDP Camps |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) expects some 350 pregnant women to give birth in camps in Northern Sri Lanka next month where ferocious battle between government troops and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is still raging on. |
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Eyewitness - They are all patients |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| The bitter war between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan army has left about 275,000 civilians displaced. A Sinhalese doctor who worked at a hospital in Vavuniya tells the BBC about the civilians and rebels he treated and life in the town closest to the former war zone. |
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Disastrous sanitary conditions in camps for internally displaced persons |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| "As a matter of priority, we have to improve hygiene conditions in the overcrowded camps for internally displaced persons. And we urgently need financial support to do so - as the emergency aid for Sri Lanka is still underfunded", appeals Dr. Juergen Clemens, Malteser International desk officer for Sri Lanka. |
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Scorched earth, craters mark Sri Lanka war zone |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Sri Lanka's former war zone is a wasteland, its earth scorched and pocked by craters. Cars and trucks lie overturned near bunkers beside clusters of battered tents. The government has denied firing heavy weapons into what had been a battlefield densely populated with civilians. |
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Tamils hunts for News of Relatives |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Many Sri Lankan Tamils around the world say they are unable to find out information about their loved ones in the war-torn north-east, reports Swaminathan Natarajan of the BBC Tamil service. Thomas Cruz says he is undergoing treatment for depression and that his health has been badly affected by what is happening in north-eastern Sri Lanka. |
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Boat to Safety is death trap to Sri Lankans |
Date: 2009-05-30 |
| Fleeing the bitter end of a quarter-century-long war, the refugees turned to a boat. It was first a shelter from artillery shells, then a frail craft to safety. Finally, it became a coffin. The boat was adrift on the Indian Ocean for nine days. |
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Evaluation visit by ECHO Officials |
Date: 2010-08-13 |
| ECHO officials visited Trichy Regional camps and evaluated the program undertaken in this project. |
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