Sri Lankan tea plantation workers

South-central Sri Lanka is the homeland of tea plantations a little 'surprise that made him famous plantation workers and the poor who can work. Originally Tamil in India, which have been brought by the British to provide cheap labor for land acquired, the planting community of nearly five per cent of the population of Sri Lanka today. plantation workers were faced with social isolation, economic and political change through the generations. While the government has finally providedfull citizenship that began in the 1970s and social services, which remain poor and marginalized. Many workers live with their families in small facilities, a room without water and sanitation. They often have little or no access to health services and lack of job security available. The plantation sector contributes about five per cent of GDP, improving the situation of plantation workers not only benefitPeople but also good for the economy. In 2006, UNDP supported the Government in formulating a plan for legislative action, vulnerable to a wide range of issues related to human development, the more concentrated, particularly in the plantation sector. UNDP, a team of consultants and training for ministries to effectively plan, which calls for better infrastructure, health, education, housing, equality and human rights...



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