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> Navajeevana delivers prosthetic limbs to war disabled Navajeevana delivers prosthetic limbs to war disabled March 2010 Navajeevana is undertaking a vital project delivering prosthetic limbs to the residents of the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps in Vavuniya in the north of Sri Lanka. The project is being delivered in partnership with Sri Lankan NGOs and friends. H.R Prasanga, head of Navajeevana's IBR unit said: "The end of thirty years of civil war in Sri Lanka in May 2009 has started to reveal the true extent of the damage to the nation’s physical and mental health. With prosthetists trained in Cambodia, another nation bearing the scars of civil war, and a team of highly experienced rehabilitation assistants, Navajeevana is well placed to assist in the post-war rehabilitation effort."  The IBR team from Navajeevana began the project in 2009 by travelling the twelve-hour journey to Vavuniya to take plaster casts and measurements from the camp residents for prostheses. Once back in Tangalla, the team then built the prostheses and journeyed once again to the North to deliver them, fit them and work with the war disabled to help them use their new limbs H.R. Prasanga continued: "This is a vital project and we are proud that through Navajeevana we are able to contribute in our small way towards the rehabilitation of those affected by the civil war". By the end of 2009 24 prosthetic limbs had been fitted (see photo above), and 24 further limbs are now due for delivery. Navajeevana is now looking for funds to continue this vital work into 2010.
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