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Vanni - HUDEC Project
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Aug. 2001
HCPPA Canada/USA has been helping in providing nutritious porridge to three
schools in Vanni district of our home land for the last 2 years. Fr. Jayakumar,
who plays a key role in the above project, (HUDEC - HUman
DEvelopment Centre) was invited to the last committee meeting held in
Markham on Aug 19,2001.
Fr. Jayakumar was very thankful to the generous help offered by our
members. He mentioned that we were the only past pupils' association helping
in feeding the poor Vanni school children. He out-lined the need for more
help to these unfortunate people and was keen in meeting other past pupils'
associations in Canada to appeal for their contributions. He also touched on
other problems of our people in Tamil areas. He also devoted some time to
answer questions from the committee members. A cheque for $1600.00 was
handed over to him at the meeting. President, Dr. Shanmugavadivel thanked
him for the excellent work he is doing in Vanni and other regions.
Dr. Shan Shanmugavadivel
HCPPA Canada/USA President.
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This project was started early last year (2000) by HCPPA (Canada/USA) to provide
nutritious lunch for 642 students in 3 schools in Vanni, Tamil Eelam. This project is
endorsed by the Dept of education.
The 3 schools are
Arochiapuram Tamil School-92
Thevankandal Government Tamil School-270
Alampil Government Tamil School-288
Last year a sum of $3200.00 was remitted for HUDEC project by HCPPA
(Canada/USA). This year we have already sent out $3200.
Let us continue to help our needy children in Vanni.
For your contributions, please contact our assistant treasurer
Mr. K. Rajaratnam
Tel: (416) 502-1423
E-mail: Kuber@sprint.com
Address:
8 Godstone Road, Apt #711
North York, ON
M2J 3C4
Canada
Page Last Updated: Aug. 29, 2001
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11th February 2000.
Dear Kalyani Rajeswaran (HCPPA Canada then secretary),
Thanks for your email letter dated 24th January 2000. Let me thank you for your efforts to consider the plight of the poor children in Vanni. In fact I returned from Vanni only last week. The pathetic situation cannot be expressed in words. Below I have mentioned about our organisation - 'HUDEC' stands for Human Development Centre (Caritas - Jaffna).
HUDEC is the social development arm of the Catholic Church in Jaffna which has been carrying out development and rehabilitation work for the last twenty-five years. In the past it implemented several relief, rehabilitation and community development projects for all citizens irrespective of caste, creed or language. The work of HUDEC has been decentralised at village level.
In the Jaffna peninsula it has successfully carried out and is carrying out several development and rehabilitation programmes. Before 1995 it involved in relief work such as providing dry rations, mild food and cadjans for roofing and shelter. It also assisted farmers to start cattle farming, goat rearing and poultry farming. Recently HUDEC started a joint venture with the HDL Development (Pvt.) Ltd. to produce low cost micro concrete roofing (MCR) tiles. A pre-school development programme has been undertaken by HUDEC with the assistance of Save the Children Norway (SCN). Three major programmes are implemented for the following sectors now:- 1. Fisheries, 2. Farmers, 3.Women.
In the Vanni district where the civil war is continued to be waged, HUDEC undertook relief work such as issuing dry rations etc. It also began shelter programme for the homeless but the main one was the nutritional programme in which HUDEC provides nutritional porridge to 12,500 school going students. Besides 107 volunteer teachers and 97 hospital minor staffs are also paid in the form of relief HUDEC. It is the intention of HUDEC to help everyone without the slightest trace of partially.
The estimate of the expenditure for a child for a month is SR 120.80 (This new budget is given because the prices have gone up due to severe ban in food items)
-Fr.Jayakumar
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