.: "Live with dignity is a right of all Human Beings"

If there is another community affected by Easter Sunday attacks is, the foreigners who were living here in SL as refugees or asylum seekers. Most of them were thrown out from their places of original stay after coming to SL after the massacre. The neighbors of their ares forced the house owners to vacate the houses claiming all those people are terrorists.
They did not have any protection after they left their places and no even place to sleep.
Their clothes and all the basic materials were left behind and they do not have anything for their mere survival.
Thanks to UNHCR, they provide food through ZOA which is not fulfilling the other basic needs other than, water, food and medicine + Clothes. NAFSO provided some basic needs to the victims through the support of their partners, AJWS & CAFOD.

ABOUT NAFSO

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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"Live with dignity is a right of all Human Beings"