February 12, 2024
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Seylan Developments PLC is pleased to announce that it has completed work on a significant Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 2023 initiative. The initiative involved the funding and development of a water purification plant at the Padaviya Mahasen Primary School in the Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka.     The Padaviya Mahasen Primary School, home to […]

February 12, 2024
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The country’s oldest stationary brand ‘Homerun’, having served Sri Lankan children for over six decades, formally launched ‘Homerun Mav Diriya’, a women empowerment entrepreneurship program with an aim to create safe and happy homes. As a result of Covid and the financial crisis, marginalized mothers are forced to abandon their children in search of employment, […]

February 5, 2024
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Sampath Bank stepped forward to provide much-needed support to the farmers of the Northern region who are battling intense heat and unforgiving soil by successfully restoring and gifting the Vavuniya Kidachchoori Tank to the people of the region under its award-winning  Corporate Sustainability Responsibility initiative, ‘Wewata Jeewayak’. Sampath Bank Managing Director Ayodhya Iddawela Perera, Senior […]

January 22, 2024
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Ceylinco Life has undertaken the reforestation of 10 acres of degraded rainforest in Balangoda and its maintenance for five years, as a corporate sustainability initiative.     An investment of Rs 5.7 million, the project will be executed in collaboration with the non-profit environmental organisation Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka, and will entail planting 10,000 […]

January 22, 2024
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January 11, 2024: Prominent Sri Lankan business establishment HTR Group continued its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) efforts in 2024 by donating nutritional and other essential items to pregnant mothers. The ceremony was recently held at the Avissawella Municipal Hall on 06th January 2024, where 250 expectant mothers from the area received these much-needed items.   […]

January 16, 2024
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024, Colombo – Marking a significant milestone, Sysco LABS announced the successful conclusion of the 10th phase of their flagship sustainability project, ‘Share a meal, Share a moment’, spreading warmth and sustenance to communities in the Lunawa and Balagala Road areas.     The ‘Share a Meal, Share a Moment’ community initiative […]

January 12, 2024
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The 322-strong fleet of ambulances operated by the Suwa Seriya Foundation will continue to fulfil its humanitarian mission in Sri Lanka with tyres supplied by CEAT Kelani Holdings as the preferred tyre supplier.     CEAT Kelani recently renewed its commitment to Suwa Seriya, undertaking to provide tyres for five ambulances free of charge and […]

January 5, 2024
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Nearly 2,300 Sri Lankans received medical consultations, diagnostics services and medical advice free-of-charge in 2023 under a long-running community initiative funded by Ceylinco Life.     Sri Lanka’s life insurance market leader conducted 10 ‘Waidya Hamuwa’ (Meet the doctor) medical camps in the year just concluded, taking a team of doctors and medical technicians and […]


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