The way SLFRD Springs into Action During Time of Disasters

Sri Lanka is a developing country in South Asia. The population is million 22.5. An island nation, Sri Lanka has a demography consisting of several ethnic groups among which Sinhalese are the majority which comprises 74% of the population. Tamils are 15% and Moor Muslims represent 8% while Malay Muslims fill 3%. Burgers of Dutch ancestry too represent 3% of the total population. Major exports of the country are tea, rubber, apparel. Sri Lanka basically is an agricultural country and agriculture is the principal avenue of revenue for the Rural Lanka. About 7% of the population are disabled persons of which a majority are rural folks.

Generally, Sri Lanka is not a country prone to frequents natural disasters. Flood is the worst natural peril some parts of the island experience time to time apart from the Tsunami which visited the island on that fateful 26th day of December 2004 and for the first time in Sri Lanka’s modern history. The giant waves that engulfed one third of island’s beaches wiped away lives of several thousands and took with it huge magnitudes of properties.