Tsunami survivors caught up in Sri Lanka conflict
Written by: David Snyder
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Caritas helped 17,000 children return to school following the Tsunami with the distribution of school uniforms, shoes and stationery packs.
In 2008, Caritas Internationalis - the umbrella organisation for 162 national Catholic charities - commissioned photojournalist David Snyder to travel to Sri Lanka. There he met the people who'd survived the 2004 tsunami only to find themselves then caught in the nation's conflict. Click on the pictures below to watch David's audio and visual diary of his trip, the people he met, and their stories of hope as they sought to overcome one crisis after another. Sri Lanka lost over 30,000 people in the tsunami. Caritas responded to this unparalleled disaster by providing temporary shelter, food, medicine, counselling, and later new homes, livelihoods and fresh opportunities for the survivors.
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David Snyder is a photojournalist from Baltimore, U.S. From 1996-2005 he worked for the U.S-based aid agency Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Balkans, Kenya and South Africa.