Connecting Families

The project is based on a motto ‘One family-One country’. Thousands of families in Tamil homeland have just got out of the backlash of the war and are looking for immediate help so as to start rebuilding their lives from scratch. Whereas those who had been released from the ‘concentration camps’ without any means to have even the basic needs in life are stranded in their own country. It is feared that this number will be on the increase as time goes by. This project is to identify the needs of those in our motherland who were so affected by the war and render them immediate help so that they could recover from their ordeal.

Plan

The object of this project is to align an affected family in Tamil Eelam with a corresponding family abroad (donor) who could offer to help.

This can be seen as an opening for those who have been released from the camps or hospitals, whereby they could start a new life with confidence. Those who suffered endless hardships and losses of lives during the final stages of the war will now need the finance to rebuild their lives and meet their basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing and medicines. Those who are chosen under this project would have either lost many members of their family or breadwinners of their family or those who become disabled due to the war.

Collection of data

A centralised database is established whereby details of all the individuals who are to benefit from this project will be collected from.

(a) Welfare associations in Mannar, Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Trincomalee, Batticoloa, Amparai, Jaffna, etc.

(b) Homes for the elderly, religion organisations and individuals.

The organisations and institutions of the foreign countries will collect the necessary information from this database so as to find the person or family who needs the help. They will then pass this information to the donor who wishes to assist the family or person. The full particulars of the recipient will be given to the donor so that the donor and the recipient can communicate with each other and the donor can understand the needs.

Organisation

‘Ray of Hope’ will co-ordinate with the peoples organisations, institutions, charities and individuals in the respective countries.

Those institutions in foreign countries will:

1. Collect the data of the families or individuals from the centralised database and pass it to those who wish to offer their help (donors) from the respective countries.
2. When someone who has been helping couldn’t continue to help anymore, the name of the recipient family or individual must be annexed to the centralised data again.
3. List the donors and the respective recipients who participate in this project.

Who will be “qualified” to help?

1. They must be over 18 years of age
2. Donors must be capable of donating the amount needed to meet the basic needs monthly
3. Must be able to communicate with the recipient and confirm that the recipients have received the necessary help