Save the Children in Sri Lanka is, with funding from the American Red Cross and technical support from Save the Children -US , implementing a poverty reduction project in three tsunami- and conflict-affected districts of eastern Sri Lanka (Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Ampara). Implementation of the project began in October 2007 and will continue until March 2010. The project targets households with a child-related issue thought to be related to poverty. Beneficiary households all have one or more children facing a nutritional, an educational or a child-protection problem. There are 1,194 beneficiary households, with 6,424 household members, of which 3,773 are children aged less than 19. The aim of the project is to provide additional income to the poorest tsunami-affected households, to lift them out of poverty, and to generate specific positive outcomes for children (improved nutritional status, better educational outcomes and fewer problems of child protection).
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