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Tailor in postwar Sri Lanka

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Thesesingurasa Unerisappu works on his sewing machine in the village of Karadianaru, Sri Lanka. He and his family were displaced during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, and when they moved back home after the fighting ended, a church group gave him the machine. He now supports his family making clothes for his neighbors.

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Paul Jeffrey
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Sri Lanka Asia Sri Lankan church Church of the American Ceylon Mission CACM man livelihood income generation postwar tailor sewing machine sewing tailoring business Tamil
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War's aftermath, Sri Lanka
Thesesingurasa Unerisappu works on his sewing machine in the village of Karadianaru, Sri Lanka. He and his family were displaced during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, and when they moved back home after the fighting ended, a church group gave him the machine. He now supports his family making clothes for his neighbors.