I met a fish worker today at Sinhagama, Beruwala. He is Sunil and just a temporary labour of a canoe, which is one of the most primitive type fishing gear in our fishing communities. They are the most marginalized and under privileged people as they earn very small amount compare to small boats, beach seines or the multiday boats. His wife is jasintha and a very much couragous and religious woman. She happen to be the chair person of the community welfare society of Welcome Village at Beruwala.
His fishing day start at the previous day night and he goes to the shore and stay there till he go to the sea. Unfortunately, some days, he doesn't go for fishing as the canoe owner has some other engagements. Unless they go for fishing there is no any income unless he get some fish from helping to other boats to pull the boats to the shore or collect fish from the nets, clean the boat or mend the fish nets etc.
He has two children, one girl and a boy and only boy is going to school at the moment. Unless they earn anything from fishing like today, they do not have any other income and no saving at all, family suffer lot of difficulties.
The situation is so much hard to see as the same family is a victim of cyclone. There was no any way to repair the house as they do not have any saving, no cooperation from the community, no unity in the village welfare society, and no collective way of facing the difficulties of the community members.
We, as NAFSO do not have any way to help them as we also face some financial difficulties at the moment.
But, we expect to do some support the family as they are still live in faith to god and to the community as well.
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