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Photos from the Peace Counts Report in Sri Lanka
- A bloody civil war...
- Sri Lanka - destruction from the war
- Ghost country...
- One and a half million landmines...
- Rohini Narasingham...
- Children like little Ravindran...
- The conflict...
- War victims...
- The aim of SEED...
- Foreign aid organizations...
- Becoming dependent...
- When the Berlin wall came down...
- In a mud hut...
- Alternative ideas...
- The first German donations...
- The SEED team...
- Back then...
- The need is enormous...
- Economic recovery...
- Watched by armed guards...
- The most necessary things...
- We have to learn...
- An oasis...
- The leftovers...
- A headstrong commune...
- On the inside...
Back then...
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"Back then, I felt something like a fatherly instinct: I, Singham, care for the widows and orphans. Wrong, that’s all wrong! We don’t want to be their protectors, we want to help them manage their own lives.” Shortly after the houses were up, the women began to plant vegetables and bananas on their land, and to earn money by making ropes for sale. After the first successful project, a second was begun for 65 families, now a third and fourth project will provide for 270 families each.