.: Towards a people's process for Post Tsunami Rebuilding

Towards a people's process for Post Tsunami Rebuilding

South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradicatio ( SAAPE) and International Collective in Support of Fishworks (ICSF) organized the Reginal Civil Society Meeting on the 24th to 26th April,2005 in Colombo at the Janaki Hotel. About 20 funders had come for this meeting and they had various sessions on Post Tsunami Activities. Fianlly they drafted a Statement about Post Tsunami activities of Each Country.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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Towards a people's process for Post Tsunami Rebuilding