March 2006 | Sri Lanka
Jacob Tours Childright Initiatives in Sri Lanka | Learn more about Sri Lanka here


Jacob, Charimnan of Childright, the Nobel Prize Winners' charitable fund for children, paid a visit to Tamil Tiger Refugee camps in Sri Lanka, formerly know as Ceylon prior to 1972. The country was a British crown colony for more than a century, but gained independence February 4, 1948 and is now a DemocraticSocialist Republic with a linguistically and religiously diverse population. Sri Lanka has a vibrant history, but its recent life has been under the shadow of an ethnically-based conflict, sporadically violent, between the Government of Sri Lanka and a separatist group known as the LTTE (Tamil Tigers). Since 2002, both parties have largely adhered to a ceasefire agreement.

Childright has an ongoing program of building schools and playgrounds at the Tamil Tiger Refugee Camps. Here are some of Jacob's photos from the visit: