The Tamil Information Technology Association (TITA) is a non-profit IT service organization operating from Sri Lanka. In 1999, when the civil war was at its peak, the idea to establish such a service organization was conceived in the minds of a handful of recently passed out Tamil engineering graduates and undergraduates in Sri Lanka. Read more...

Emergency Tsunami Disaster Relief Activities in the North and East of Sri Lanka

In the aftermath of the unprecedented disaster caused by the Tsunami waves in the North and East coast of Sri Lanka, TITA has temporarily suspended all its IT development programmes in the North and East and is pulling its muscles to engage itself in Emergency Disaster Relief activities in these regions, with the help of generous donations from Tamils in Sri Lanka as well as the Diaspora Tamil community. TITA kindly calls upon the Tamils all over the world to help TITA or any other service organizations that are involved in disaster relief activities in the Tamil homeland. Those who are willing to join hands, please call +94-777-780304 or +94-777-271467 or +94-777-286800.

List of urgently needed Medical Items - Fax received by TITA from Kilinochchi.

Summary of contributions and relief activities:

TITA Tsunami Disaster Relief Accounts (Donations and Relief Expenses) as at 19th January 2005

Water tanks to tsunami victims' camps in Amparai and Batticaloa

(02 Jan 2005 )

Money for purchases donated by:

London Sri Kanaga Thurkai Amman Temple and Mr.K.Siva , Siva Travel GmbH, Switzerland.

Distribution Details:

• Following a request made by those coordinating relief works in Batticaloa/Amparai region to the TITA teams visited the above districts with relief materials on the previous days, TITA obtained the generous help of the above sponsors and purchased water tanks to fit at the camps in Ampara and Batticaloa, where people displaced due to tsunami waves are sheltered. A team of TITA volunteers headed by one of the TITA directors Mr.R.Jananthan handed over a container full of water tanks to the task force representatives.

• Dr.Puvinathan, who is coordinating Tamils Health Organisation's relief works in Colombo along with TRO, handed over 30,000 water purification tablets to be used with these tanks at the beginning.

Photos: Click here for more photos related to this activitiy

Medicines worth Rs. 700,000  for Amparai, Batticaloa and Trincomalee

(30 Dec 2004 )

Money for purchases donated by:

Mr.K.Siva , Siva Travel GmbH, Switzerland

Distribution Details:

• Medicines were distributed to camps in Amparai, Batticaloa and Trincomalee

• A 5KVA Generator was also donated for a Medical Camp in Amparai to provide power to the Camp and to a Fridge to store Medicines.

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Medical Camps and Medicines worth Rs. 1,000,000 

(29 Dec 2004 )

Distribution Details:

• One Half was for, TITA Medical Camp in Eechilampatru Maha Vidyalayam and in Maavadichchenai, Trincomalee. Doctors arranged by Lions club of Inner Colombo & Jaffna University Medical Faculty Students.

• The other Half was handed over in Kilinochchi, to be distributed in Mullaithivu.

Photos: Click here for more photos from TITA's Medical camps in Eechchilampatru and Maavadichchenai

Medicines & Liquid Food Items worth Rs 300,000

(28 Dec 2004)

Distribution Details:

• One Half of the items were handed over in Kilinochchi for distribution in Mullaithivu

• A Quarter of the items were given to Jaffna University Medical Camp in Batticaloa

• The other Quarter was given to Jaffna University Medical Camp in Amparai

Medicines & Food Items worth Rs 50,000

(27 Dec 2004)

Distribution Details:

• The staff and students of the Jaffna Free Computer Training Center bought and collected food and medical items and handed them over to the divisional secretaries and grama sevakas for distribution to 207 families who sort refuge at the Nelliyadi Mathya Mahavidyalayam. 

Some photos from the immediate relief works on Monday, the 27th December, in Jaffna: