About Project
Project description
The Tsunami Education Project (TEP) in Sri Lanka has increased the basic knowledge about the reasons of earthquakes and tsunamis among local communities and different target groups in Sri Lanka which have been affected by the Tsunami on December 26th, 2004.
The missing of geography knowledge lead to the situation that affected families in Sri Lanka often were living in durable fear and were not moving back into their former living areas, even if there were transitional or permanent accomodations again.
The main target group were teachers of Tsunami-affected schools along the South and East Coast of Sri Lanka. The TEP improved the geography education in schools by giving a scientific explanation of the disaster in 2004 to the teachers for the first time.
The European experts were carrying out geography workshops in schools, transitional shelter camps and churches at the East Coast and South Coast of Sri Lanka. The project managers already carried out this kind of workshops in the Ampara District in a four months tsunami relief project of the Global Education Network (GLEN) in 2005.
The TEP Team was cooperating with the NGO HELP from Germany which is working in Sri Lanka and gave the main financial support for this project.
The project started in March 2006 and was completed in March 2007. During the project time of one year geography education materials have been produced and distributed to schools and other multiplicators.
Furthermore the TEP Team was educating and training local experts and multiplicators in Sri Lanka to hand over the TEP concept during the project time. This ensured a sustainable geography education.
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