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Nearly nine months after the tsunami disaster that devastated hundreds of miles of Sri Lankan coast line there is still an urgent need to rebuild communities & help support them in the process of rehabilitation.
In Sri Lanka 40% of the 35,000 confirmed deaths were children. The number of children orphaned is around 1,000 + with those having only one parent left numbering 3,500. Against this backdrop one of the services provided at Camp Coconut is counselling (trauma, bereavement, and confidence building).
‘Somagiri’ Kotawila road a safe place
Lorna Tyther, who runs the Phoenix with her Husband Billy and family, a registered youth worker with the K.D.Y.S. is involved in work with Camp Coconut. She has a diploma in Community and Youth Work, an N.C.V.A. in O.P.I.D.S (older people in dance) and an N.C.V.A. in Theatre Arts and Drama. She has been a teacher of Egyptian Dance, dance therapy, fitness & relaxation for twenty years and was the first teacher in Egyptian dance in Ireland fourteen years ago.
The Camp Coconut Relief Fund & Resource Centre is a project set up by Nick and Anne Wynne- Morgan, former residents of Keel Castlemaine who now reside in Colombo Sri Lanka.
Lorna is involved in the fund raising event The Exotic Magic Circus, which has raised to date €2700 , thanks to generous donations and the generous participation of the many talented performing artists.
Lorna plans to spend a month in January in Sri Lanka working with the children in Camp Coconut on an integrated dance, movement and language programme - Moving Language Moving Boundaries
If you wish to help in anyway please contact Lorna or Nick. More details can be seen at www.campcoconut.org
Somagiri, Kotawila Road. Kamburugamuwa. Matara. Sri Lanka Activity Centre +94(0)141220349. Colombo office +94(0)112368531
Nearly nine months after the tsunami disaster that devastated hundreds of miles of Sri Lankan coast line there is still an urgent need to rebuild communities & help support them in the process of rehabilitation.
In Sri Lanka 40% of the 35,000 confirmed deaths were children. The number of children orphaned is around 1,000 + with those having only one parent left numbering 3,500. Against this backdrop one of the services provided at Camp Coconut is counselling (trauma, bereavement, and confidence building).
‘Somagiri’ Kotawila road a safe place
Lorna Tyther, who runs the Phoenix with her Husband Billy and family, a registered youth worker with the K.D.Y.S. is involved in work with Camp Coconut. She has a diploma in Community and Youth Work, an N.C.V.A. in O.P.I.D.S (older people in dance) and an N.C.V.A. in Theatre Arts and Drama. She has been a teacher of Egyptian Dance, dance therapy, fitness & relaxation for twenty years and was the first teacher in Egyptian dance in Ireland fourteen years ago.
The Camp Coconut Relief Fund & Resource Centre is a project set up by Nick and Anne Wynne- Morgan, former residents of Keel Castlemaine who now reside in Colombo Sri Lanka.
Lorna is involved in the fund raising event The Exotic Magic Circus, which has raised to date €2700 , thanks to generous donations and the generous participation of the many talented performing artists.
Lorna plans to spend a month in January in Sri Lanka working with the children in Camp Coconut on an integrated dance, movement and language programme - Moving Language Moving Boundaries
If you wish to help in anyway please contact Lorna or Nick. More details can be seen at www.campcoconut.org
Somagiri, Kotawila Road. Kamburugamuwa. Matara. Sri Lanka Activity Centre +94(0)141220349. Colombo office +94(0)112368531