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This web log is a news and views blog. The primary aim is to provide an avenue for the expression and collection of ideas on sustainable, fair, and just, grassroot level development. Some of the topics that the blog will specifically address are: poverty reduction, rural development, educational issues, social empowerment, post-Tsunami relief and reconstruction, livelihood development, environmental conservation and bio-diversity. 

Sunday, February 05, 2006

1 year after, private tsunami donations tops Rs. 25 b

Daily Mirror: 01/02/2006"

One year after the devastating tsunami Sri Lanka had received Rs. 25.4 billion in private donations for relief and rehabilitation work.

Central Bank said yesterday that the figure of Rs. 25.48 billion was received as at December 31, 2005 by the Government, non-Governmental Organizations and others in Sri Lanka as private foreign and local donations through banking channels towards tsunami disaster relief. This figure includes Rs. 3.35 billion received by the Government mainly through the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and two state commercial banks.

The Central Bank will continue to update this information monthly.

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