every house and street exactly the same, like a modest version of a California gated community -- will be populated by carefully vetted inhabitants -- although the government has been careful to mix Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. While around $3 billion has been pledged from across the world to help Sri Lanka recover from the tsunami, many aid workers and influential Sri Lankan planners say there is a need for greater coordination to ensure the money is not wasted. Scores of aid organisations, eager to show the donors back home that their money is being well spent, have voiced frustration at red tape holding up projects. Stories abound of a fishing village being presented with a gift of new boats -- but without engines. A few kilometres (miles) up the coast, another village gets a gift of outboard engines -- but no boats. --More 1329 Local Time 1029 GMT
