Lifeline
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Lifeline is a Humanitarian Information Service aimed at improving the access to information to IDPs and conflict affected communities in Sri Lanka through media productions, radio and print, in Tamil language andsome in Sinhala.
The Lifeline project in Sri Lanka commenced at the end of 2007, and has broadcasted radio shows through national and regional radio stations and distributed a weekly newspaper directly, and free of charge, targeting IDP populations. Through these media productions Lifeline disseminates relevant and accurate information for IDPs to know about humanitarian projects, activities and services that Government, I/NGOs, UN agencies and others are providing, and more importantly, how these communities can access to and benefit from those services.
Since March 2009, due to the increasing intensity of the conflict and dramatic rise in IDPs, Lifeline began broadcasting daily. Currently Lifeline broadcasts a 30-minute daily radio show on national and regional radio stations (SLBC Tamil National Service, Yal FM in Jaffna and Iratte Periyakulam in Vavuniya), and distributes 32,000 copies of a 8-page weekly newspaper, directly and free of charge, to IDP camps in Vavuniya and resettled areas in Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Jaffna and Mannar.
