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Elly, 29 June 2010
Netherlands , Amsterdam 24°

holidays and preparation

Hello everybody,
Some news from a sunny and almost tropical Holland, where we still are on holiday.
Until beginning of October, we know now, when we will leave with yet another contract with VSO to work for one and a half year in a project in Sri Lanka. We will live at the east coast in Trincomalee.
Mart will work for the Department of Social Welfare to help them set up some Vocational Training Schools for war victims and disabled people.
Elly will work for the same Department and develop Health Care Activities.
Throughout the ages everybody had interest in Trincomalee due to its location at the Indian Ocean and with its natural deep-water harbour. Here you can find the highest diversity in ethnic groups of Sri Lanka.
It is a beautiful country with beaches and hills and rich in culture, but also with a turbulent history of civil war and disasters [Tsunami]. Now that Peace with the Tamil of the north has been signed, finally the time has come to reconstruct. We are proud to make a small contribution to this.
Sri Lanka is almost twice the Netherlands. In Tricomalee temperature varies between 28° and 35° C. It can rain throughout the year with peaks in October, November and December. We already bought a language course Tamil and are busy filling in all kinds of formality. We are very much looking forward to it.
As soon as we know more, you will hear from us again,
Elly and Mart