humanityashore - manatkudiyiruppu

There are two hundred families-nine hundred and fifteen families living in the transitional shelters in Manatkudiyiruppu-Mullaithivu District. Although the basic facilities are available here, it's very difficult to live in rainy season. These trasitional shelters were built by the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation.

This is a fishing village, and 90% of the families depend on fishing industry for their livelihoods. About five hunderd villagers were washed away in the Tsunami. The whole village went under water.All the properties were lost to the sea. The villagers say that, they worship the sea like God. They regret, what has happened to their lives. They also say that, they must have committed some sinful acts in the past, and the sea or the God reacted to it in Tsunami form.

More transitional shelters are being built

Time for tuition

Play time

Although the Cadjans, which are made out of coconut leaves being used for the roofs, still it's very hot inside the shelters.

"We were all, ready to face anything during the war. We kept the valuables separately to take them with us, when we were displaced from our own place. But we never expected the sea to swallow our loved ones and properties. Most of us thought the war has started again, as soon as we heard the noise of the wave on 26th December 2004 coming into the villages. Now we are destitues, left with nothing" says forty years old Prema Loganathan