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20/02/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka:  As part of its Dengue prevention and awareness campaign an inter school dengue competition took place recently to raise awareness among students on the repercussions of dengue. In May last year over 1000 people were killed due to this illness. Soon afterwards the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society in collaboration

16/02/2018 – Batticaloa, Sri Lanka: Countless people die during an armed conflict. Many are separated from their families and loved ones. There are others who go missing. The armed conflict in Sri Lanka between the Government and the LTTE separated families. Periyasamy Ramaiah never thought his family would be torn in two. Almost three decades

16/01/2018 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society elected a new governing board while reelecting the terms of President & National Secretary for the next four years. The Bienneal General Meeting got underway in Colombo on the 13th of January 2018 with the presence of IFRC & ICRC dignitaries. Here new and

07/12/2017 – Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society under the guidance of its President Jagath Abeysinghe and the patronage of the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, took measures to distribute relief items to families suffering from kidney disease in the district of Polonnaruwa yesterday. This

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF SRI LANKA RED CROSS JAGATH ABEYSINGHE IN VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY 2017 A child wounded from floods receiving some water to drink. A hungry family living in a temporary shelter receives some warm clothes. A father finds his child after a devastating landslide. Where there are carnage and destruction,

01/12/2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s Disaster Management centre has been tracking another possible storm that could impact the Eastern & Northern Sri Lanka in the coming week. Weather modules predict that the system could impact Southern India and would brush aside the eastern and northern Sri Lanka bring in heavy

30/11/2017 – Jaffna, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society recently held a training for the military of Sri Lanka in camp management during disaters. This is vital as most of the time disasters are managed by the Military. The training covered areas such as the best way to handle matters within a camp

29/11/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Colombo Branch took the initiative to provide traffic police in the Colombo district the training on First Aid in order to assist the public during accidents. The traffic police is usually one of the key personnell on an accident site and has the ability

08/11/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Colombo Branch took steps to provide relief items to people affected by minor floods in Hanwella, Colombo today. Around 800 families received aid during the day.  The Kuwaiti Red Crescent sponsored the relief packs and funded the relief distribution. Their support will extend to people

05/11/2017 – Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society took steps to distribute water filters to over 400 families in Pulasithi, Polonnaruwa in order to assist people in the area who are fighting kidney disease. The handing over ceremony took place under the patronage of the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of