05/12/2015 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: Today is International Volunteer Day. This day we celebrate the support and invaluable services rendered by thousands of volunteers across the island. At Sri Lanka Red Cross there are over 7000 active volunteers who engage in providing services such as first aid, emergency relief, assisting during times of disasters, and
23/11/2015 – Rathnapura, Sri Lanka: A national youth camp aimed at molding young minds to be future leaders of the country was held in Nivithigala, Rathnapura recently with the participation of youth from all branches of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS). The event was organized by the Youth Unit of the Organizational Department of
UPDATE 2 18/11/2015 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) is responding to various emergencies as a result of adverse weather conditions in most parts of Sri Lanka. 138,676 people living in 14 districts, mostly in the north are affected by floods, landslides and heavy rains. SLRCS volunteers through its branch
11/11/2015 – Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka: In recent years, Sri Lanka has endured a series of extreme weather-related events, attributed in part to the effects of climate change. Since 2010, torrential rains have caused five major floods and the country has also been beset by four periods of significant drought. One of the consequences of these erratic
10/11/2015 – Mannar, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) in collaboration with the Qatar Red Crescent vested in the public recently in Erukkalampiddy and Kondatchchi in the Mannar District. This is part of the community support provided by the Mannar Branch of SLRCS. 114 houses 6 shops as livelihood support, two tube
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISSUED ON 20th OCTOBER 2015. Colombo, Sri Lanka: In early October, the SLRCS Kilinochchi Branch received a written complaint from a Red Cross beneficiary, that a SLRCS technical officer requested sexual favours in return for faster process of payments of a cash grant to rebuild her house. The woman in question had
17/10/2015 – Monaragala, Sri Lanka: The Moneragala Branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society recently handed over a clean water system to the students of the Monarawana Junior School in Medagama division in the Monaragala District. There are over 200 school children studying in this school with grades from year 1 to ordinary level.
26/09/2015 – Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka: At least seven people were killed and over 180 others affected as torrential rains triggered landslides in Sri Lanka’s central hill area. Several houses were swept away in the landslides after heavy rains lashed central Nuwara Eliya district’s Kotmale area on Friday. A two-year-old child was among seven people killed
21/09/2015 – Kalutara & Mullativu, Sri Lanka: Coast conservation Authority and the District Secretary’s Office of Kalutara organized a coastal belt cleaning program behalf of International Coastal Cleaning Day which fell on the 19th of September 2015. This cleaning program was conducted in Aluthgama, Kalutara to Panadura along the Kalutara district coastal belt. There were over 4000 members from the community
12/09/2015 – Colombo, Sri Lanka. Today is World First Aid Day. This year we focus on providing this life saving skills to the aging population. Everyone should know how to save a life. Age is no barrier. Every five seconds, someone in the world dies from an injury. Anyone, anywhere, at any time can suffer
