Sri Lanka

This program has been successfully completed

UPDATE: War Child has successfully completed programming in Sri Lanka

War Child Canada has been operational in Sri Lanka for over six years, working to support families and communities as they recover from the 30-year civil war and the devastation of the 2004 Asian Tsunami. Working through local partners in Batticaloa Town – situated on Sri Lanka’s far eastern coast – War Child has run programs focused on the psychosocial recovery and education of children from both Muslim and Tamil families, as well as activities contributing the reconciliation of these two communities.
 
Since the end of the war in May 2009, Sri Lanka’s east coast has seen improvements in economic recovery, social services and the rebuilding of infrastructure such as roads and communications. And so, after six years of successful programming, War Child Canada’s Sri Lanka Program has drawn to a close. In order to ensure that the impacts of our programming are sustainable and continue to provide support for these recovering communities, War Child has worked for the past 18 months on a focused capacity-building program of our local partners, providing trainings on financial management, organizational structure and accountability, monitoring and evaluation, and proposal writing. With these tools and skills, War Child’s partner organizations will continue to be the cornerstones for the ongoing process of development and reconstruction.