The Aspirations Education Foundation has partnered with Deakin University together with Arts Building Children’s Dreams (ABCD) in Australia to support the development of over 20 schools in Ampara District.
The European Union has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide productive infrastructure for local economic development in Monaragala district.
The second Aitken Spence Staff Convention was held on 24 July at Aitken Spence Towers.
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently interacted with 260 entrepreneurs in the Central and North Western provinces at programmes hosted in Kandy and Kuliyapitiya as part of the Bank’son-going initiative to promote entrepreneurship development across the country by empowering micro, small and medium enterprises with the knowledge they need to grow.
Wellawatte Nithyakalyani Jewellery together with Rotary Club of Colombo East organized a mega blood donation campaign recently.
Vocational Training Authority (VTA) announced the inauguration of two vocational training institutes in Trincomalee on 8 July 2015.
A project by the Corporate Social Responsibility Trust of Commercial Bank to landscape one and a half acres of the gardens of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) Colombo has been completed.
A spate of activities in geographically and culturally diverse areas of Sri Lanka has seen Embark, Sri Lanka’s unique fashion brand supported community animal welfare programme, record one of the busiest quarters in its eight year history.
Softlogic Finance PLC has extended its ‘Clean Zone’ community initiative which is intended to enhance the cleanliness of the environment – by supporting proper disposal of garbage, for the benefit of the residents of the fast-growing Jaffna peninsula.
Entrepreneur, fashion icon and animal lover Otara Gunewardene who exited the Odel business empire she founded and built to focus on matters closer to her heart, has set up a non-profit foundation dedicated to improving the lives of all animals, communities and the environment.
Further to recent articles in the news that present a distorted view of status of estates held by Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs), drawing erroneous parallels to situation on estates post nationalization and later privatisation and with particular reference to crop development, the Planters’ Association of Ceylon clarifies and wishes to correct the narrative.
