26 June 2009 - Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: A taste of success
Piyadasa Leelawathie and her two nieces Sinnathambi Kesai and Madhavan Oviam have embarked on a small business that is yielding excellent results. Leelawathie and Kesai are both widows, and are the beneficiaries of a grant from the British Red Cross. They used the money to start up their own business making string hoppers - a local food made from rice noodles curled into flat spirals. (...) This is the last of a series of four profiles/case studies, looking at how Red Cross Red Crescent has helped people to rebuild their own lives after the tsunami in Sri Lanka.
Tsunami operation financial overview
The information in this summary combines financial data from 39 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies and organizations and the International Federation secretariat.
Disaster management
