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	WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lanka disaster - Poverty-stricken Hambantota among the worst affected areas
		Sri Lanka’s Hambantota district in the south of the island is one of the areas worst affected by the tsunami that hit on December 26.
		Today Hambantota is like a war zone with hundreds of pulverised homes and dwellings, upturned vehicles, uprooted telegraph and phone lines and countless corpses floating in nearby lagoons and mangrove swamps.
		They are crowded with hundreds of people flocking to Hambantota to try and locate their relatives and loved ones.
	www.lankalibrary.com /news/hambantota2.htm (1102 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Government Gazette
		Fondly referred to the land of milk and honey - and a decade ago during the JVP insurrection, guns - the Hambantota District twice in the recent past was the birth place for the JVP insurgencies.
		Hambantota PA leader Mahinda Rajapakse is satisfied with the development activities the PA carried out in the district during the last seven years.
		Claiming that he was the first person to make the proposal for the Hambantota Port with all statistics in Parliament, the businessman turned politician says that he is committed to implement the project soon to free the people in the district from poverty.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/pix/GE-Hambantota.html (1069 words)

	Daily Mirror Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rain has come back to Hambantota but in disappointing quantities, inadequate to bring life back to the paddy fields, which were wasted and abandoned for the last seven years due to no rain.
		Signs of desertification visible in Hambantota mainly are land degradation, decrease of moisture in the soil as well as in the atmosphere and salinisation.
		Hambantota and some of the arid regions are facing both these trends at a very low pace.
	www.dailymirror.lk /inside/features/020904.html (1345 words)

	HAMBANTOTA
		Hambantota, 240km (150 miles) from Colombo, is an independent travellers' haven that is showing some of the signs of escalating into a fully fledged holiday resort.
		Hambantota stands on a sandy headland, on the seaward side of which a huge fleet of outrigger fishing canoes draws up, and the horizon is almost always dotted with their small triangular sails.
		Just east of Hambantota a series of salt pans - some still in use, some disused - attract large numbers of waders and shore birds, including greater flamingo, spot-billed pelican, several species of plover and tern, gulls, ducks, egrets, sandpipers and many others.
	www.sritravel.8m.net /hambantota.htm (509 words)

	When the Sea Stood Up: Hambantota: Washed Away by the Waves - revcom.us
		Somewhere between the town of Tangalle and Hambantota, the weather zone shifts from wet to dry.
		Hambantota is often described as a bustling town with little to offer visitors.
		Like most of the survivors in Hambantota, Jabari is still not very clear about what exactly happened, what exactly a tsunami is, why it happened, or why it caused so much destruction, death and pain.
	rwor.org /a/006/hambantota-washed-away-waves.htm (2898 words)

	Drought in South-Eastern Sri Lanka
		The ongoing drought in the Hambantota District in the South-East of the Island has led to shortages of drinking water, failure of crops, malnutrition, typhus and hardship to wildlife.
		The average rainfall during October to December for Hambantota (434 mm) is quite high and equal to that during the seven months from February to August (437 mm).
		Indeed, the rainfall at Hambantota appears to be affected by El Nino type conditions in the Pacific Ocean and warm Indian Ocean conditions.
	iri.columbia.edu /~lareef/wcsl/hambantota.html (1086 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rare drought hits tropical Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Hambantota, 100 miles south of the capital, Colombo, 80% of the population are farmers.
		Hambantota is home to several wild life sanctuaries that house elephants, wild boar, deer and birds.
		Hambantota received only 5.9 inches of rain from February to July, half the normal, Amaratunga said.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/world/2001/2001-09-20-srilanka-drought.htm (718 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hambantota is a natural harbour with a depth to take in any large ship a few metres from the coastline.
		In 1933 the English bypassed Hambantota and opted for Colombo, due to scanty population in the southern setting and the lack of accommodating infrastructure in its environs, SLPA Vice Chairman Dr. Krishan Deheragoda said.
		There is evidence that Hambantota had been a harbour in ancient times with ships from China and the rest of the then navigating world, having called, here.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/10/17/new18.html (349 words)

	travelsrilanka
		Hambantota, situated on the southeast corner of Sri Lanka's coastline, is a well-sheltered fishing port with much history attached to it.
		The belief is that the name Hambantota was derived much later, during Dutch times, when Indonesian Malays arrived in their boats - sampans - to the tota - harbour - of this bay in search of elephants.
		Hambantota is also renowned for its rich, creamy curd, which is made from the buffalo milk.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=717 (262 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hambantota having garnered the most amount of media publicity also claimed the largest slice of relief money.
		Hambantota's problem, according to Dr. Panabokke consultant to the Water Resources Board who had studied the region's geology and water supply for the last 25 years, is over-population.
		Chena cultivation is best for most parts of Hambantota, due to the lack of irrigated land.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2001/10/07/fea12.html (823 words)

	Fluvanna Chamber of Commerce
		In the Hambantota district of Southern Sri Lanka, the events killed 4,500, displaced 27,351, and, most tragically, left 397 children without one or both of their parents, the highest ratio in the southern districts of Sri Lanka so far documented.
		IRD is known to the Director General of Hambantota, the Head of the Chamber of Commerce and the local water board officials.
		IRD is known to the Director General of Hambantota, the Head of the Chamber of Commerce and area micro lending institutions.
	www.fluvannachamber.org /news_article.aspx?NewsID=217 (4234 words)

	Reflections on the Tsunamis’ Impact in the Coastal Town of Hambantota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The district of Hambantota and the welfare of its people are quite important to IRD as this is where it is conducting a program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
		The Hambantota Educational Support Improvement Project (HESIP) provides milk to 12,000 school children, de-worming medications, and infrastructure improvements to 25 schools in the area.
		IRD is committed to the long-term recovery of Hambantota, a district that has lost over 4,500 people and displaced over 27,000.
	www.ird-dc.org /html/hambantota.html (708 words)

	Sri Lanka Online News - Colombo Page
		May 24: As donors commit more funds to provide a group of needy children in Hambantota with heart surgery, efforts are being made to schedule their surgeries as soon as possible.
		Imesha was one of ten infants and children from Hambantota who were unable to undergo surgery to repair holes in their hearts because their families lacked the necessary funds.
		Because their parents cannot afford the high cost of surgery, the doctors at the Hambantota Hospital have announced the launch of a fund to raise money for the children to undergo surgery at the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital in Colombo.
	www.colombopage.com /cgi-bin/show_ach.cgi?Hambantota.txt (10501 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Sri lanka
		A single bird seen on a sandbar at a pond at the 243 km marker post 7 km east of Hambantota during the morning, and two birds associating with a flock of 105 Whimbrel at the west end of Karagan Lewaya (next to the Ambalantota-Hambantota road) duing the late afternoon.
		At Mayurapura, a few km east of Hambantota, a large flock (at least 50 birds) noted feeding at a pond in the early morning of April 11.
		At Hambantota, birds recorded at the salt ponds (2 pairs), the headland (1 pair) and at the mouth of a small river near Udamala between April 8-13.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/sri-lanka/sri3 (4536 words)

	::::::ADRA - Adventist Development and Relief Agency - Sri Lanka:::::
		In the Hambantota District, the largest province in Sri Lanka, ADRA has been providing emergency solutions to potable drinking water since the Tsunami, and currently continues to empower the communities to be able to stand on their own, and to provide safe drinking water for themselves.
		The goal of Hambantota Water Supply Project (HWSP) is to provide a steady safe drinking water supply to both directly and indirectly Tsunami affected families in the Division of Agunakolapelessa in Hambantota District.
		Angunakolapelessa is the poorest division in the Hambantota District, with an estimate of 11,000 resident families, who according to the Divisional Secretariat, have very poor access to drinking water, drinking water that is un-suitable for human consumption, potentially causing diseases such as yellow fever and diarrhoea to arise amongst the local population.
	www.adrasrilanka.org /_other/hwsp.htm (407 words)

	Rebuilding Hambantota After the Tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Despite government pledges to assist people, many are wary of official plans to reconstruct towns, which they fear, may take them away from the lives they had and the memories that remain.
		Located on Sri Lanka's southern coast, Hambantota was a fishing village and home to roughly 12,000 people.
		Hambantota, a poor area -- home to some of Sri Lanka's Muslim minority -- is to be a showcase for her administration.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-02-15-voa50.cfm (536 words)

	Town of Hambantota, Sri Lanka Regains Some Normalcy After Tsunami a Year Ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Sri Lanka, Patricia Nunan revisited the town of Hambantota, where she tracked down some people she met just after the disaster, to gauge how recovery is going there.
		Of Sri Lanka's thousands of coastal towns and villages, those in Hambantota district were the worst hit by the tsunami waters.
		Despite the outpouring of international assistance in the tsunami's wake, it wasn't enough to ease the fears of many, who were unsure the town or its people would ever truly recover.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-12-21-voa41.cfm (739 words)

	Situation Reports: South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004, Humanitarian Situation Report - Sri Lanka: 23 Dec ...
		A mass grave of tsunami victims was exhumed in Tissa in the Hambantota district on 21st December 2005 to identify and confirm the death of a Japanese tourist with regard to a settlement of a Court case.
		The OCHA Hambantota field office reports that water and sanitation is a main issue in most of the newly opened housing projects in the Hambantota district and the relevant authorities have been notified.
		In the Hambantota district there are a total of 1,696 transitional shelters in 37 camps of which 1,006 shelters are in Tangalle, 155 in Ambalatota, 367 in Hambantota and 168 in Tissamaharama.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6KRJ5K?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=lka (1290 words)

	Drought
		The Hambantota district appears to be the hardest hit.
		However, the fact still remains that the Hambantota district is a purely agricultural area.
		Hambantota has felt the most severe effects of the drought thus far.
	www.priu.gov.lk /news_update/Drought/Hambantota_drought_index.htm (1061 words)

	Sri Lanka: the day the tsunami devastated Hambantota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Most of those affected in Hambantota were municipal council workers, salt industry employees, fishermen, small-scale traders and the rural poor.
		All of the equipment and property of fishermen from Hambantota port was destroyed and many damaged boats could be seen thrown up on land.
		These dunes protected most of the lowland areas from the tidal waves but in places where there were no dunes, especially at the sea entrance of Karagan Levaya, the waves hit with maximum force and caused unprecedented levels of damage.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jan2005/hamb-j17.shtml (1332 words)

	Seacology - News
		Hambantota District is very important to us because our Kiralakele Centre is located in one of the wetlands in Hambantota District.
		Most of the coastal communities are engaged in fishing in Hambantota and 82 percent of them are small fisher families and are members of Small Fishers Federation.
		The Seacology funded mangrove resource center was set up focusing these fishing community and their younger generation in Hambantota and also in Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
	www.seacology.org /news/display.cfm?id=139 (816 words)

	Recover Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hambantota - A young boy and his grandmother at a relief center
		Hambantota - These two young monks have returned home temporarily, because the temple they reside in was badly affected
		Hambantota - Kasim, a fisherman by vocation has only his child to hold onto.16 members of his family perished in the disaster
	www.yatv.net /recoversl/refugees.htm (224 words)

	BBCSinhala.com
		He told the courts that the Cabinet of Ministers were informed of the monies in ‘Helping Hambantota’ fund, which is monitored by Secretary to the PM, Lalith Weeratunga.
		The "Helping Hambantota" fund was set up to help the constituency from which Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa hails.
		The CID sought permission from the courts to investigate the accounts alleging that there was a breach of trust concerning nearly 83 million Sri Lankan rupees (approx 820,000 US dollars).
	www.bbc.co.uk /sinhala/news/story/2005/09/050928_helping_hambantota.shtml (327 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This port which was constructed on a trip of land extending seawards afforded protection from the raging waves and currents of the sea, was very spacious as well as well known among sailors who plied the ocean routes at that time.
		The Dutch who wrestled the Maritime provinces from the portuguese, stationed a regiment at Hambantota which was situated at the eastern border of their administrative district of Galle.At this time the Kandyan Kingdom gained its supplies of salt from Hambantota.
		In this way the name Hambantota by which this port had been known for nearly five centuries previously came to be used, to refer to the whole town as well as the administrative region round it.
	www.ruh.ac.lk /South/Hambantota/history.html (397 words)

	LankaWeb News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		My memories of this idyllic beachside town goes back to a time when I was a little boy filled with a sense of adventure and the love of the ocean and the times I spent in Hambantota with two members of my immediate family.
		In those days it was a haven for holidaymakers both in Hambantota and nearby Bundala, wild life buffs enroute to Yala and Weerawila Game Sanctuaries and pilgrims on their way to Tissamaharama and Kataragama.
		Hambantota has a large Malay population alongside the Sinhalese residents and I have sadly recieved information that many families, some closely known to me were decimated and wiped out by the Tsunami and I dedicate this narrative to their memory as well as all of Hambantota.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items05/010205-1.html (169 words)

	ADB Assistance to Combat Drought in Hambantota District - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ADB Assistance to Combat Drought in Hambantota District - ADB.org
		ADB Assistance to Combat Drought in Hambantota District
		The funds will be used to purchase bowsers to transport potable water from existing water treatment plants.
	www.adb.org /Documents/News/slrm/2001/slrm200102.asp (117 words)

	Practical Action-Hambantota district fisheries survey report
		But, many of the methodologies are not necessarily acceptable to the normal boat building principles and techniques, some times even at the cost of the quality of the end product.
		Though marine fish resources in Sri Lanka are classified as coastal (up to 40 km) off-shore (40-100km) and deep-sea (beyond 100km).This study focused on coastal fishing, where an over-supply of boats is anticipated due to the lack of the deeper understanding of fishing practices.
		ITDGPractical Action is planning to further build on this knowledge and understanding and develop a database of different types of boats used by fishermen in each of the fishing clusters (around 30 different clusters in Hambantota District),and to make this information available for other organizations involved in building boats for the affected communities.
	www.itdg.org /?id=hambantota_fisheries (452 words)

	Inside Bay Area - Hambantota: Helping Hambantota
		Two to three miles outside of the town of Hambantota, where 4,500 people died in the tsunami, hundreds of two bedroom one-story brick houses with a veranda and gardens are being built for tsunami survivors.
		In the run-up to the Nov. 17 election, opposition leaders routinely criticized Rajapakse, then prime minister, for attracting donors to help Hambantota after the tsunami, while neglecting other areas.
		Ramesh Selliah, director of housing, urban development and the environment for the Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation, defended the disproportionate number of new houses under construction in Hambantota, contending that multiple aid agencies began working independently on new housing there shortly after the tsunami.
	www.insidebayarea.com /features/srilanka/ci_3333062 (215 words)

	Situation Reports: Sri Lanka: Drought - Aug 2001, Sri Lanka - Drought OCHA Situation Report No. 1
		According to a WFP/FAO joint assessment which took place in Hambantota and Moneragala from 20 to 22 August 2001, one of major issues is the lack of drinking water.
		It is also decided to appoint committees consisting of Grama Niladaris (government officials at village level) and other local authority officials to obtain accurate figures relating to the affected population.
		WFP and FAO have fielded a joint assessment team to Hambantota and Moneragala from 20 to 22 August.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/f428dfb21e2f9c8dc1256ab9004d39ef (1198 words)

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