Project Report
| Jul 18, 2011
Providing support to familes in Batticaloa
By Vijay Indran | President
The districts of Batticaloa and Ampaarai east of Sri Lanka have been affected by second natural disaster within two months, with lashing torrential rains and floods. The overflowing water from irrigation tanks has entered villages in the two districts and normalcy has been badly affected. Flood affected people are forced to undergo tremendous hardships due to lack of food and other facilities as the civil authority had failed to provide relief promised for the previous natural calamity that took place few months back.
SCOT has been working closely with two Registered Local Charities to provide food and accommodation to affected parties. More help is required for resettling the displaced families and to bring back a level of normality in the region. A fund raising Dinner & Dance is planned in London for the 19 November 2011.
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Nov 29, 2010
SCOT - Project Update
By Vijay Indran | President - SCOT
The General Council unanimously decided that our priority is to help the Internally Displaced People (IDP’s). Funding has been mainly prioritised to help the orphans housed in schools and orphanages, and medical in the Vanni district
Due to the war many of our past beneficiaries themselves are displaced. We are in the process of contacting many of our past beneficiaries directly in Sri Lanka with a view to understanding their current needs and how we may support their current projects. . This will see us effectively directing our resources at the most urgently needed areas in the North and East affected by the war.
This year also saw the first funding from our Scholarship Fund, set up a couple of years ago. This funding is mainly to help the educational needs of the members of the Tamil community from all three religious backgrounds. An Investment Trust is now in place to invest approximately £15,000 in a fund to generate continuous income supporting this project in the coming years.
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Jul 29, 2010
Provide aid to war affected in Vanni, Sri Lanka
By Vijay Indran | President - SCOT
For the Tamils of Sri-Lanka the last twelve months has been traumatic to say the least. Over three hundred thousand people were displaced after the war last year and most of them are now resettled in new areas and against their own will. Major casualties of the war are thousands of children, our future generation, made orphans. Having witnessed their parents or relatives killed in front of them, unable to continue their studies with their own kith and kin but being dispatched to an alien land often to school hostels.
As you are aware, SCOT is a premier Tamil charity in the UK and our aim is to help the underprivileged in our homeland. With your help and generosity we have been working effectively alleviating many sufferings of our people. In the last three months we have provided financial support to hundreds of IDP families to resettle in their own homes. Provided help to youngsters to go back to schools.
To address the exceptional need of today, we are forced to reach out to the general public and persuade them to partake so that we can jointly address the dire needs of our people.
“Together we can make a change” to the suffering of our people and the SCOT- General Council is “counting on your support”.
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