Sri Lanka Flood Relief

Hello friends,
We are a group of volunteers who always help when the community needs and have been engaged in various charity events so far. We are now based in California, USA but we have a dedicated team working in Sri Lanka in disaster related or any other charity activities.

Sri Lanka is in need of our help today with hundreds of thousands people have been severely affected. We have a team working in Sri Lanka to help the victims directly. There are many charity organizations and volunteers helping the situation. But we need much more than we actually have. Please come forward and donate any little money you can to help them who are desperately in need of our help. The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded Sri Lanka since last weekend, triggering huge landslides that have buried some victims in up to 50 feet (15 metres) of mud.

The district of Kegalle, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Colombo, has been worst-hit, with the toll from two separate landslides rising to 34.

The national Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said 21 of Sri Lanka's 25 districts had been affected. Around 300,000 people had been moved to safe shelters while a further 200,000 were staying with friends or family.

The meteorological department says the rains have been caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, ahead of the arrival of the southwest monsoon.

After escaping the worst of the flooding in the earlier part of the week, large swathes of Colombo had to be evacuated overnight in an operation led by the military, involving boats and helicopters.

The DMC said around 200,000 people had been moved from the low-lying capital which has a population of about 650,000.



The worst-hit areas were in Colombo's northeastern suburbs along the Kelani river, which began bursting its banks on Thursday evening.

We need your help. Please come forward and donate. We will keep you posted and updated with all our activities there. Thank you for your help.