Update on CTC’s COVID-19 Food Relief Effort for Refugees Returnees from India to the Jaffna District in Sri Lanka.
April 30, 2020.
The total number of Refugee Returnees from India who had recently (in 2019) returned to their places of origin in Jaffna district is 118. After getting the necessary approvals from the Divisional Secretaries, OfERR Ceylon staff started to make the required arrangements to get quotations, finalizing the best supplier and ordering for the following items for the first batch of 40 families in the Jaffna district.
Each relief package for one family contained 5 kg of Rice, 2 kg of Flour, 1 kg of Sugar, Soya meat 250 grams and Tea 100 grams.
The distribution for the Jaffna district started on April 24th, and until April 27th, OfERR was able to reach 40 refugee returnee families from 34 GN divisions from 13 DS Divisions in the Jaffna District.
The food relief for refugee returnee families from India was sponsored by Canadian Tamil Congress and the Nava Wilson Professional Law Corporation.
The table below provides the number of returnee families having received food relief in each DS division.
- Forty families consisting of 127 people, had benefited from this relief support.
- Of the 40 families, 21 families are female-headed.
- Further of the 40 families, 14 families come under families who have children or members with special needs – members with some disabilities.
