The Happy/Sad Letterbox
Many children were not comfortable talking about their fears after the tsunami and other difficult issues, so Plan in Sri Lanka encouraged children to write out their problems and drop them inside the Happy Sad Letterbox.
Sri Lanka
- Lives lost in tsunami:
- 35,322 dead
- Houses destroyed or damaged:
- 105,293
- Internally displaced persons:
- 516,150
- People assisted by Plan:
- approximately 450,000
Plan success stories
Children of the Sea
Twenty-two teenage tsunami survivors with no previous acting experience channelled their energy into a Bollywood-inspired theatre production that garnered accolades at home and abroad. For them, the theatre became therapy.
