Monthly Progress Report of Relie

Total number of Camps	9
Total number of IDPs	10,956
Total number of families	3865
Total number of Female	5370
Total number of Male	5586
Stdents at TLS Kodikamam	72
Stdudents at TLS Kaithaddy	256
Total number of issuing supplementary food	11,284

· All school going children are provided with learning facilities through the Temporary leaning schools. But O/L and A/L students should be given additional coaching as they already lost so many school days during the war time at Vanni.

· The IDPs are allowed to see their relatives at IDP camps. And they received meal packets as well as other needy items for them.

· Banks, postal, communication service and corporative store are operating inside the IDP camps.

· The university students are still not allowed to go to the relevant universities.

· Teachers inside the camps are given chance to teach inside the TLS and arrangements were made to pay their salaries.

· RDHS are looking after the medical side of the IDPs but chicken-pox is commonly spread among IDPs.

· After delivery, the pregnant women allowed to stay with their relations for three months and others are allow to stay at separated hospital at Varani for three months.

· The supplementary food issue to all Vanni IDP camps is the major activity for the month of June 2009 as relief activities.

· This supplementary food issue is very successful with dry ration from WFP, thereby nutrition and satisfaction is achieved among IDPs.

· Most of the IDPs are costal area people as such issuing fish for 3 days satisfied them.

· The GA and the authorities concentrate on communal cooking but faced difficult in manipulating. For example at Ramavila camp a kitchen supported on more than 1200 people. Therefore it creates some problems.

· We insist to individual cooking but the authorities are not willing to accept because they anticipate fire risk.

· Distribution is difficult task. We utilize 2 vehicles in this programme. But due to the distance and other distributional time factors unable to distribute the items in time. Thereby in some camps having their lunch only after 3 o’clock.

· Beginning of this month the prices are little high. After the government allows fishermen for deep sea fishing the prices are reduced and the total cost may decrease in future.

· We had issued 500 packet of samoposha for pregnant women and feeding mothers.

· At the request of the kopay camp commander we issued 20 school bags, 8 shoes and 125 exercise books to the IDP school children at Kopay camp.

· Additionally the zonal educational office Jaffna arranged an incentive coaching programme for the A/L students and the year 5 scholarship students at Ramavilla camp for three days a week. Caritas-Hudec sponsored to transport the government school teachers from Jaffna to Ramavilla camp and to support by refreshments to the teachers and students.

· Most of the shelters roof and sites are completely covered by Cadjan. There is no privacy inside the shelters thereby female IDPs are facing some difficulties.

· The month of June experienced heavy wind blow in Jaffna. The shelters, kitchen, cooked meals and even IDPs are affected by the sand blow.

· Most of the shelters in the camps are in low areas, soon after the rain the area is flooded. Thereby most of the shelters are not safe for rainy season.

· Water sanitation is a highly problematic item in the camps. In all the camps other than drinking water the water is not sufficient. The drainage of waste water stagnated and creates a lot of problems.

· The toilet pits create a lot of problems to the IDPs. There is no proper schedule for sucking toilet waste from the pits. Thereby the surrounding area is smelling and the environment polluted.

· There is no proper place to dump the toilet waste. Thereby toilets may create terrible problem in future.

· For use of toilets the sphere stranded is not met. In all the IDP camps constructed 1 toilet for 50 members.

· Providing of meals for the IDPs -6,896 people at Veerapuram camp and Cheddikulan School.