Pictorial: At Kilivetti camp, waiting to go home
Several Internally Displaced Persons at the Kilivetti welfare transit camp, in Trincomalee district – are being resettled in their villages.
Non governmental humanitarian agencies say that the returnees need long-term support from aid agencies, since they left their villages with nothing, and basically have to re-start lives from scratch.
Many are happy to leave – if their is adequate safety in their villages, since life as IDPs is very hard. They have no privacy living in a transit centre.
Families in eastern and northern Sri Lanka have had their lives disrupted repeatedly by civil war over the last 25 years
Pictures by drs. sarajevo
Elderly woman just being told that she will return to her village the next day
On the day before returning
Listening to the briefing about their return
Being informed about their return
Before ruturning
Owner of a little roadside shop in Kilivetti
Children at a transit camp
Tots at the camp
Kid in Kilivetti
Kid in Kilivetti
Kid in Kilivetti
Students, their education interrupted; education is taken care of at the camps as much as possible, but it is not always ideal.
Students in Kilivetti
