16/03/2013 – The Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRCS) Ampara Branch moved to a new building under the auspices of the President of SLRCS Jagath Abeysinghe and the Secretary of Parliamentary Affairs to the President of Sri Lanka, Kumarasiri Hettige. The new building consists of 3 story’s, furbished with a hall, administrative block, and a store

18/03/2013 – Himidurawa, Ampara – The sun started to rise on Saturday the 16th bringing new hopes and dreams to a special family in rural Ampara in the Eastern shores of Sri Lanka. That day Dilshani Lakmali, who’s 15 years old got up early and got dressed not to go to school. School was closed

11/03/2013 – Gampaha, Sri Lanka – As s social responsibility and with the sole intention of increasing professional awareness and assisting to fill in the gaps of knowledge on professional preparedness for safety and health and emergency response in beauty salon industry Sri Lanka Red Cross Society – Gampaha Branch has been implementing an awareness

07/03/2013 – The Puttalam branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) conducted a workshop for over 60 villagers in Walahena, Chilaw. The community awareness programme was aimed to developing the knowledge of the villagers with regard to HIV/Aids and other STD’s and more importantly how they can safeguard themselves from these types of

06/03/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) today handed over 3 ambulances worth 28.5 million rupees to 3 hospitals in the Eastern Province. Trincomalee General Hospital, Gomarankadawala Base Hospital & Padaviya Base Hospital are the recipients of this new ambulances. The handover ceremony took place in Colombo today (06/03/2013) under

08/03/13 – Boose, Sri Lanka: The Restoring Family Links (RFL) Department of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) visited the Boose Immigration Detention Centre to look into the welfare of 72 immigrant detainees from Bangladesh & Myanmar. They were taken into custody while being stranded in the Indian Ocean on a raft trying to

07/02/2013 – Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka: The city Independence Day Celebrations for this year took place in the Nuwara Eliya district under the patronage of the Minister of Estate Affairs Muthusivalingam and also Minister Nimal Piyathissa recently. Students from schools in the district took part with various other individuals from the Government & Non Government

07/02/2013, Mullativu, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s Mullaitivu Branch organized a shramadana activity on 29th of January 2013 at Kalamahal  Vidyalayam, in Mulliyawalai, Mullaitivu. SLRCS Staffs, Volunteers and School students were participated in shramadana activity. The objective of this Shramadana was to clear the environment around the school thus helping the students

07/02/2013 – Puttalam, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) with support from the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) handed over 10,000/- LKR to 200 families in the Puttalam district as support towards livelihood resumption for people affected from the recent severe drought. The President of SLRCS Jagath

24/01/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Red Cross Society of China donated a 50,000 USD towards the flood and climate change affects operations that is currently run by the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society. The cheque was handed over by the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Wu Jianho to the Director General of SLRCS Tissa