Sri Lanka: relief agency trains widows to take post-war leadership
CWN - May 11, 2011
As Sri Lanka struggles to recover from the effects of a long and bloody civil war, officials of Caritas International, the Catholic relief agency, are forming women's organizations to assume local leadership in war-torn regions where the male population was decimated by the fighting.
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