SRILANKA TAMIL WIDOWS-ORPHANS FORUM: WHAT? WHY?

DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS!

AFTER RECEIVING AN EMAIL AND FOLLOWED THE TRAGIC PLIGHT OF TAMIL WIDOWS/ORPHANS(YOUNG OR OLD VICTIMS) FOR LONGTIME(BY WAR/POGROMS/MASSACRES/DISAPPEARANCES/EJ KILLINGS OR BY NATURAL CATRASTROPHES LIKE FLOODS,TSUNAMI) I DECIDED TO START A FORUM FOR THOSE VOICELESS/ HELPLESS/POWERLESS/MONEYLESS PEOPLE THROUGH BLOGGER.COM!

THE WORK HERE IS SIMPLE AND FREE FOR ALL! THOSE WHO ARE VICTIMS, CAN WRITE THEIR PLIGHT WITH DETAILS(NAME/ADRESS/TEL/FAX/EPOST/DOCUMENTATION/RECOMMENDATIONS/NEEDS/ID NR/FOTOS).WE PUBLISH IT WITH YOUR PERMISSION!

THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP FOR NEWLIFE/SELF-HELP/EMPLOYMENT, CAN DO SO BY SENDING MONEY/MATERIALS/CLOTHS/MEDICINE/ADVICE/GUIDANCE DIRECTLY TO THEM! "STWOF" WILL ONLY HELP TO ORGANISE,COORDINATE,GUIDE AND MAKE THEIR LIFE EASIER/HAPPIER!

THIS IS PURELY A VOLUNTEER WORK BASED ON COMPASSION,JUSTICE,EQUALITY,FRIENDSHIP ETC.
VICTIMS CAN ORGANISE GROUPS/COOPERATIVES/SOCIETIES/CENTERS/CLUBS OR NGOS CAN PUBLISH THEIR DETAILS/REQUESTS HERE! MAKE LINKS TO THEIR WEBS OR BLOGS HERE!!!

SHAN NALLIAH
ORGANISER/COORDINATOR
ADDRESS:LYNGVEIEN 3B,3041 DRAMMEN,NORWAY TEL.0047-91784271 EPOST:shanmugappirabunalliah@gmail.com
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FW: WIDOWS NEED HELP‏
Fra: Nadarajah Satchi (nsatchi@hotmail.com)
Sendt: 28. mars 2009 05:38:10
Til: anas nawas (anasnawas@yahoo.com)

FYI
49,000 widows in eastern Sri Lanka need jobs: U.N. official
Colombo (PTI): There are at least 49,000 widows in urgent need of employement in the war ravaged Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, a U.N. official has said, warning that if left in lurch many of them could turn into suicide bombers.

There are 49,000 widows in the province and out of them 35,000 are below 30 years while unemployment ratio is around 30 per cent, the Island Newspaper said quoting a a top U.N. official as saying.

There are also 8,000 TMVP cadres who are now unemployed and this is a serious issue which has to be addressed sooner than later, it said.

While several were widowed during the LTTE war, many women in the region also lost their spouses during the Tsuanami in December 2004.

"Many of these women are widows of LTTE fighters before the TMVP carved out a separate group from the LTTE and joined the mainstream," Nawaz Rajabdeen, National director UNIDO Sri Lanka, said.

The widows also include those who lost their husbands in the 2004 Tsunami catastrophe, a U.N. Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) official said.

"Unless rehabilitated, they could turn into suicide bombers with no other choice than to rejoin the militant groups," he added.