Press Release: Sri Lanka: Commission provides €6 million in aid to support improvements in the humanitarian situation

The European Commission has allocated another €5 million to provide humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host families in Sri Lanka. The current return process has triggered urgent humanitarian needs in particular for protection, temporary shelter, health services (mobile clinics and specific care for conflict victims) and demining in heavily mined return areas. At the same time, the Commission has allocated a further €1 million in humanitarian aid for Sri Lankan refugees living in camps in Tamil Nadu, India. All relief funds are channelled through the Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) under the responsibility of Commissioner Karel de Gucht.