A programme was started in Sri Lanka in 2006 when War Child Holland started to work with War Child Canada (WCC). Owing to the presence of War Child Canada, War Child Holland does not need to use extra funds, but more children can be reached. On top of tha,t the mutual sharing of knowledge benefits the quality of the programmes of both organisations.

War Child Holland financially supports the programme of War Child Canada. The programme is carried out in the east and north east of Sri Lanka, in the most heavily affected districts of Batticaloa and Ampara. The duration of the project was twenty months, which means that the programme will end in April 2008. WCC supports two partner organisations in Sri Lanka: Butterfly Peace Garden and Kalmunai Peace Foundation. They work with children and youth, female and male animator trainees, parents and care-givers of the children in the project, adults targeted through project outreach activities, general population from the camps, the communities in 90 border villages and civil society. Border villages are communities in which different ethnic groups live separated from each other.

Butterfly Peace Garden
Butterfly Peace Garden carries out psychosocial programmes in the relief camps for tsunami victims in Thiraimadu and Karballa in the province of Batticaloa. With creative arts activities they stimulate a healthy psychosocial development of children that have fallen victim to the tsunami and the continuous civil war. The children have lived in the camps since the tsunami destroyed their homes. In the programme 400 children and youth are actively involved.

Kalmunai Peace Foundation
The Kalmunai Peace Foundation operates in nursery schools in 9 villages in the Amapara district. Apart from education peace building is an important component of the project. In the villages Muslims and Tamils live strictly segregated lives. In the nursery schools children from the various communities carry out activities together in order to foster mutual understanding. All in all 360 children are involved in this project

War Child is active in Sri Lanka since 2006

 
 

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