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One month ago, landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains woke 16-year-old Roshika in the night. Along with her sister Srimali, 15, she fled her home and sought refuge with her family in a temporary shelter.  Life as she knew it was disrupted. The school materials she needed to prepare for important examinations were destroyed.

Save the Children Sri Lanka team celebrated the Founder’s Day on 19^th May, 2014 in Kitulampitiya, Galle. The day commemorated the founding of Save the Children by Eglantyn Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton on 19^th May, 1919 in order to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.

Children in Habarakada School in Colombo, Sri Lanka are now using standard sanitary facilities after Save the Children with CHINTAI Co. Ltd. Japan renovated the lavatory system in the school, which was opened for use on 7th February 2014. This is a mixed school which has 600 children enrolled.

Child Centric Budget Analysis (CCBA), also known as Budget for Children (BfC) analysis, is an exercise done to gain an understanding of the financial resources allocated by the State to ensure the wellbeing of its child citizens as well as the ‘optimum budgeting’ that is needed to meet the core needs of the country’s children.