Kalmunai Mental Health Association

Mental Health Unit

Base Hospital Kalmunai

Title: Report on post flood relief work In Batticaloa and Kalmunai.

To: IMHO – USA,

From: Kalmunai Mental Health Association – Sri Lanka

Date: 22.01.2011.

Report on Post flood relief work in Batticaloa and Kalmunai, Prepared by

Secretary, Kalmunai Mental health association.

It was terrible for three days with continuously heavy raining affected entire eastern province, and it
was very much effected Batticaloa and Kalmunai. Thousands of thousands people vacated their homes
to welfare camps, some welfare camp also came under water on third day of this flooding situation
again people displaced to some other safer places. Nearly four hundred thousand peoples resettled to
safer places like schools, government buildings, Kovils, Mosques, churches. The situation very
difficult to manage the urgent needs of the peoples like food, safer water, shelters, light and medicine
etc.

Kalmunai Mental Health association (KAMHA) took an immediate action to address the people urgent
humanitarian needs. International Medical Health Organization (IMHO- USA) send us US Dollars
4,000, with that help we addresses the people needs in smaller scale but it was very valuable help in
this difficult situation.

Our executive members and staffs worked hard to provide the relief items to those who were very
badly affected both Kalmunai and Batticaloa districts; our purpose was address immediate need of the
affected people in Kalmunai and Batticaloa, it was very challenging job because most of our staffs also
affected by the flooding and our team worked with commitment to make sure our relief work efficient.

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Three groups worked to address the urgent needs of the affected people, first group worked in medical
mobile clinics in welfare camps, second group worked to identify and address the urgent needs in
welfare camps and provide food items and soaps and third group identify the families those who badly
affected by this flooding in community and provide food items for their immediate needs.

Pattern of expenditures
Medicines and other items (Medical mobile in camps) 100,000.00
Rice, Milk powder, Biscuits and Soaps
(Welfare camps, church and Ramakrishna mission) 150,000.00
Thousand rupees worth food items to 200 families 200,000.00
Total 450,000.00

(All bills and list of beneficiaries available)

We are very much grateful to executive members of IMHO – USA and Canada and people who extend
their valuable services to the people who are very badly affected by the flood 2011.
We expect that IMHO will extend the humanitarian needs in poor resettlement project.
Thank you,

Secretary,
KAMHA,
Kalmunai – Sri Lanka.

Attachment: Few photos for better understanding

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