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In the days following the tsunami, AmeriCares airlifted relief supplies to Colombo, Sri Lanka; delivering medicines, medical supplies, water purification treatments and other relief supplies. Over the next month, AmeriCares delivered three additional airlifts of aid, which were distributed in collaboration with local authorities and other NGO's.
Today, AmeriCares Sri Lanka is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and a variety of non-governmental organizations in the country to address some of Sri Lanka's most pressing post-tsunami issues, including health care, education, water supply as well as sanitation needs and livelihood issues. At the invitation of the MOH, AmeriCares is working to further the development of trauma and emergency medical services in Sri Lanka, and is the only American NGO serving on the country's Trauma System Development Committee, created in 2006.
AmeriCares is also partnering with the MOH to support four major hospital projects at Tangalle District Hospital, Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Jaffna Teaching Hospital and Elipitiya Hospital.
In the education sector, AmeriCares is collaborating with the Sri Lankan agency TERM (Tsunami Education Rehabilitation Monitor), to contribute to the rebuilding and rehabilitation of 13 schools in the Valaichchenai region, one of the poorest areas in the country. In the water supply and sanitation sector, AmeriCares worked with the National Water Supply & Drainage board to develop a water testing and water purification program and has supported the equipping of water treatment plants in the tsunami affected areas.
In the livelihood sector, AmeriCares is working with the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) to support the re-establishment and creation of small-scale income sustainability
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