Raised: 33%
Target: £100,000.00
Raised so far: £33,104.00
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This is an URGENT appeal for funds to give food for 270,000 people who have fled to Mannar and Vavuniya (in the North East of Sri Lanka) from Vanni. The need so great we have increased our target to £100,000.

As at 27/06/09 Arobanam has successfully delivered nearly 82,500 food parcels in the Mannar & Vavuniya camps. We have also been helping almost 1400 injured people in Vavuniya and Mannar  hospitals. We work closely with the Vauniya Convent.The Convent have been able to deliver essential items including mats, pillows, sugar, biscuits to many more people. In some cases we have provided milk powder along with flasks containing hot water for the babies. Essential help was given to 350 pregnant women too. On the 23rd May  the Sri Lankan authorities has banned all food delivery to camps. We had no choice but to stop. We are however still delivering food parcels and other essential items such as milk powder  to Hospitals in the area. With the help of "Destitute Welfare Fund" in Mannar, we are also trying get 314 children released from the camps. These children have lost both their parents and have no relatives in the area.


286,000 people have fled Vanni arrived in the already crowded towns of Vavuniya and Mannar. These people are held in 5 army run camps without basic facilities to sustain a life with dignity. These people have not eaten for several days and have not changed their clothing for more than one month.

Our partners (Destitute Welfare Fund) in Mannar are left with the task of helping to provide food for as many of the 50,000 unfortunate victims of the war. Arobanam's patron and his colleagues are helping the remaining people in Vavuniya.

With our limited resources, currently we have agreed to take responsibility to deliver food parcels for 3,000 people in the Mannar area for an indefinite period, depending on the availability of funds.

This is an appeal to you, our patrons of ACF, to donate as much as you can so that we can help these people who are undergoing such a terrible ordeal. Children are worse affected in this tragedy. Please help us to do much as we can and tell your friends to do the same by supporting us and any other reliable organisations involved in helping these people in the North-East of the Island .

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Thank You

Management Committee of Arobanam Children Fund.

Hi Vijay, good luck on your endeavours Donation by Dipak Buxani 20/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous 05/07/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

hope you will be able to continue your good work Donation by Vijayaledchumy Ramanathan 07/06/09  

£65.00 + £18.33 Gift Aid

Donation by Rom & Siv 04/06/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Donation by Johann Pathinathan 03/06/09  

£200.00

Donation by Jonathan Pathinathan 03/06/09  

£200.00

Please donate generously May God Bless You ... Donation by Ruban Sivanesan 02/06/09  

£250.00

save lives Donation by ps 01/06/09  

£100.00

Thanks to all at Arobhanam for the excellent effort to help our brothers and sisters suffering in N. Srilanka. Donation by Parthy 01/06/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Donation by AS 31/05/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

My best wishes. Sorry this is so little, so late Donation by Anon 30/05/09  

£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid

Donation by Sunaina rao 29/05/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Our people in the camps are crying out for our help ... how can we ignore it and just carry on with our lives as if it has nothing to do with us!!! Donation by Thenu&Prince 29/05/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

a small help Donation by dilip&suri 29/05/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

All are our relatives Donation by N.Tharmarajah 28/05/09  

£50.00

Donation by D.C.Hurst 28/05/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous 28/05/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

I'm happy to donate to ACF because I know it will reach the needy people back home. Donation by Miriam Albert 27/05/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Donation by Siva Gaya 26/05/09  

£300.00 + £84.62 Gift Aid

I’m honoured to donate my 21st B’day gifts to this great relief programme. Donation by Tina 25/05/09  

£546.00 + £154.00 Gift Aid

This is a worthy cause, please contribute. Donation by Ashok 25/05/09  

£100.00

Please help ACF to do more Donation by Ramakrishnan 19/05/09  

£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid

Thanks to Mithilia for highlighting the cause Donation by Charlie 19/05/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Wish we could do more to help x Donation by Janitha & Sai Perry 17/05/09  

£500.00 + £141.03 Gift Aid

Donation by Vik & Math 15/05/09  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Donation by Giri 15/05/09  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

I can donate with confidence that my money will be spent.for needy children Donation by Anonymous es 15/05/09  

£201.00 + £56.69 Gift Aid

Donation by VI 15/05/09  

£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid

Donation by A Greenup 15/05/09  

£20.00

Donation by anonymous 14/05/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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