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
20/10/2017 – Kurunegala, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society took steps yesterday to vested in the public three disaster risk reduction projects that will provide support to over 200 families in Maspotha, Kurunegala. This project initiated after a risk assessment of the community found that most families do not have access to safe
26/09/2017 – Matara, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society with the support from the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has begun the construction of houses for people affected by the landslide in Morawakkanda in Deniyaya, Matara. On the 25th May 2017, the Morawakkanda mountain gave way owing to massive rains experienced before. This
25/08/2017 – Kegalle, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society vested in public the first house completed for people affected by the Aranayake landslide in Kegalle yesterday (24th). This house was built by the funds donated by the public in Sri Lanka and the world over through online contributions. On the 17th of May
03/08/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: As the dengue epidemic continues to claim lives in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society in partnerships with the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has increased activities aimed at combating dengue epidemic in the island. As of now over 327 people have lost their
