The floods and landslides in Sri Lanka hit the headlines during the week of May 16th http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36319698 Many of the scenes reminded us of the 2004 Tsunami - the reason FODAD was started and we reacted quickly.
FODAD sent money immediately for emergency dry rations. In 2015 our friend Jon and his friend Nina had raised the money to buy the fishermen a tuk-tuk to take their fish to market. This was used to pick up supplies to distribute to the Villagers. Our boats were then taken inland by truck and used in the rescue operations.
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| Crossing the railway lines with bags of food. |
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| Food delivered to our village families |
Over the next few days we kept in touch on a daily basis and knew that the people in our village were OK. One surprise was in store for the villagers when they woke to find that a crocodile had joined the sea from the local river which had been flooded. They caught him in their net and called wild-life rescue.
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| One sad croc |
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