🚨 🆘 🇱🇰 SRI LANKA NEEDS HELP 🇱🇰 🆘 🚨
Sri Lanka has been hit with its worst flash floods and landslides in 20 years in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah that made landfall two days ago. The banks of the longest river have burst, the reservoirs and flood control bunds are overflowing, entire towns engulfed three-storeys high, whole suburbs being evacuated as the water levels continue to rise. The death toll is over 150 and climbing, 78,000 people displaced, highways washed out, roads impassable. The country has ground to a standstill as rescue workers scour the waters for survivors and shelters go over capacity trying to offer food, medical aid and dry clothes and bedding to thousands of families. International news outlets are barely covering the climate catastrophy, most instead making us an endnote in their coverage of similar floods in Southeast Asia.
Sri Lanka is one of the poorest countries in the world that went through a historic economic crisis in 2022, defaulting on our sovereign debt. We have been painstakingly restructuring our debt and crawling our way back to solvency ever since. Everything we have built back is now being washed away. We need money and resources for the thousands of internally displaced families, especially to combat the infectious diseases and epidemics that will follow the floods.
From Vajra Chandrasekera's ( @adamantine) blog post.
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
November 29, 2025 | Vajra Chandrasekera
Cyclone storm Ditwah has hit Sri Lanka very hard. The toll of the dead and missing are climbing; tens of thousands are displaced.
These are the official government accounts for donations in any foreign currency.
Amalini De Sayrah is maintaining a list of current appeals for help with bank account information (Google Doc). This doc includes instructions and screenshots on how to use Wise to donate from outside the island.
All of the below are smaller, on-the-ground relief initiatives that I trust and personally vouch for. Most of this is geared toward people in Sri Lanka or with connections to the island, but if you want to help, anyone can donate from anywhere—Wise.com lets you donate directly to a local bank account, and any of the below are a good choice. See below for Wise instructions, though it’s pretty self-explanatory.
Carestation works in multiples areas as well. Bank account information and updates here (Instagram) or on their website.
Marisa De Silva is running point on a number of flood relief initiatives. Contact her to support directly. Phone number and updates here (Facebook)
Update: You can now donate via Venmo! Hasini* has a Venmo link here, which will route through Saritha Irugalbandara in Sri Lanka for medical supplies and other necessary essentials.
All of the above relief and mutual aid efforts are (sadly but fortunately) experienced, having done this before a few years ago during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. So you can rely on your donations getting traction on the ground asap. Please do help if you can.
*This is a different Hasini, not me.
Please donate if you can. If not, reblog!
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