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By Ganga Kariyawasam and Sakshi Selvanathan   Improving livestock farming is a prerequisite in providing food for an increasing population and as well as in securing the livelihoods of farmers. As a consequence, however, livestock farming creates a large carbon footprint and contributes significantly to global warming. If global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered by sector, agriculture

By Ganga Kariyawasam Production of adequate and safe drinking water is a high priority issue for safeguarding the health and well-being of people in the world today. People in the dry zone in Sri Lanka is facing this challenge which is exacerbated by the impacts of climate change; one of the most complex challenges facing

By Sakshi Selvanathan and Ganga Kariyawasam   Lalitha Damayanthi Kumari is an enterprising female farmer. Living in the Vitharanagama village (in the Polpithigama Divisional Secretariat of Kurunegala), Lalitha engages in cattle rearing and home gardening in her homestead with the support of her family. These tasks are carried out in addition to the quotidian domestic

By Sakshi Selvanathan and Samadhee Attanayake It is no novel revelation that COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka and the localities within the island – and the national medical system is no exception to the rule: it has also been put under severe strain as a result of the epidemic’s devastating impacts. Thus, it

By Sakshi Selvanathan   Nestled within the verdant hills of the Bogawana estate of the Bridwell division in Nuwara Eliya, lies the newly constructed house of 55-year-old Mrs Sivanu Poopathy – now inhabited by herself, her husband P. Viswanathan, teenaged daughter who is still schooling, and a son who works in the private sector. Before

By Sakshi Selvanathan (07th August 2020)   In the present context where countless processes have ground to a halt in the face of the relentless COVID-19 outbreak, some remain uncompromisable, and rightly so. One such process is Sri Lankan farming, and the farmers who engage in these activities (especially those in the dry zone) are

By Sakshi Selvanathan – (18th June 2020)  Our extensive volunteer network has been the propelling force behind our humanitarian endeavors from the very inception of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s emergency response to the COVID-19 epidemic. With the sole objective of protecting the Sri Lankan populace from the debilitating disease, volunteers across the twenty-five

By Sakshi Selvanathan – 12th June 2020 (Colombo) The bittersweet joy of only a handful of life’s moments can compare to that of a mother finally reconnecting with her child, after more than half a decade of no contact. And owing to the intervention of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Mary Saundya

UPDATE #25 25th June 2021 – Today the SLRCS handed over 10-litre oxygen concentrators to the Piliyandala Divisional Hospital and the Wethara District Hospital, which will be used to help in the recovery of #COVID19 patients admitted there. The stocks were handed over by the SLRCS President Jagath Abeysinghe and the Sri Lanka Red Cross