27/08/2012: Every year, there are two annual church feasts taking place at the St. Anne’s Shrine, Thalawila, in the month of March and August. Carrying out first aid services for the pilgrims attending this religious ceremony has been a traditional event to the Puttalam Branch, which has been doing this for last fifteen years. Commemorating
23/08/2012 – In Sri Lanka, November- January is a rainy season (North East Monsoon) especially in the north and east part of the country. During this season most part of the north, east and central provinces used to be affected by flood and water level raises up 4 to 6 feet. During this period most
19/08/12 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The ICPR project covers Colombo, Badulla, Mannar, kegalle and Matara. The IPCR team working in the Colombo Branch of Sri Lanka Red Cross Society selected 05 GN divisions as a project implementing area in Kolonnawa and Homagama DS divisions for the Vulnerability Capacity Assessment. This assessment initially took place at
09/08/2012 – Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Red Cross Mullaitivu branch organized a three days hygiene promotion workshop from recently at the Branch Meeting Hall under the Volunteers in Action component with support of the Red Cross Post Conflict Recovery Programme. 25 volunteers actively participated in this programme which was aimed at promoting better hygiene among communities in
By Rifkhan Arbee, SLRCS Colombo Branch 26/06/2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka The Dengue crisis in Sri Lanka has been and is still a huge disadvantage to the community of Sri Lanka and therefore the Sri Lanka Red Cross Societys Colombo Branch is challenged by the dengue crisis and is already implementing some of their ideas in
28/06/2012 – Galle, Sri Lanka: Red Cross Branch Disaster response team was given a custom-tailored training on basic GPS navigation, Satellite & Radio Communications recently at the Galle branch. Nearly 20 BDRT members attended the training workshop which was conducted by the ICRC resource personals. The main objective of the workshop was to give a comprehensive
26/06/2012 – Wellawaya, Moneragala – People in Thoraara, Ethiliwewa became the proud owners of a community service center that will enable them to develop their community, farming and other services in the village. The Community Service Center is located at the Wellawaya division in Moneragala district and it was built at “L4, Thoraara, Ethiliwewa” under
26/06/2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka – The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s (SLRCS) Colombo branch organized a cleaning campaign to curb dengue in the Sedawatta & Dahampura GN divisions in the Kolonnawa Divisional Secretariat within the Colombo district. This initiative was supported by the Red Cross “Integrated programme for Community Resilience” . These cleanings campaigns took place in mostly
14/06/2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Colombo branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society moved to a new permanent home today located in Kottawa. The new branch building comes with the support of Canadian Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, Thaiwan Red Cross Organization, American Red Cross and also with internal funding of the society. The
Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Kandy branch organized a First Aid Training Programme for School children in the area from 30th March – 06th of April 2012 under the Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction Programme.
