Sri Lanka too suffered severely due to heavy monsoon rains causing floods across the island nation. At least 40 people have died due to this. Around 1.1 million Sri Lankans have affected and 51,400 people are languishing in temporary shelters. This unprecedented flood crippled Sri Lanka’s rice production.
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) is deeply grieved with the disaster caused by the recent floods causing immense hardship to thousands of families. While appreciating the timely intervention of a number of countries by providing prompt assistance for the benefit of flood victims, TISL stresses on the need to be extremely cautious and be transparent in the distribution of aid to the affected people minimizing the lapses that may occur.
TISL is confident that the lessons learnt from the tsunami debacle will be carefully studied and adhered to at this juncture to implement a meaningful and transparent relief programme to the victims.
The generosity of humanity is best illustrated in times of disaster and TISL is most appreciative of the timely action taken by the Government spending more than Rs. 150 million to provide relief to the affected families and deploying the armed forces in rescue operations and welfare activities.
As for the assistance rendered by friendly countries, TISL is extremely thankful to the European Union, India, USA, China, Japan, and Canada as well as international agencies such as the United Nations and Oxfam for coming forward and donating more than Rs.1100 million.
TISL urges the government, volunteer agencies and the general public to be mindful of possible lapses in the distribution of aid and to ensure a transparent mechanism which would deliver maximum benefits to the affected people while maintaining highest standards of integrity.
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