; 23/07/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRCS) with the support from the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies will host the Global Beneficiary Communications Boot Camp in Sri Lanka this October. The boot camp will bring in practitioners of beneficiary communications to Sri Lanka in order to
03/07/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society said its farewells to a outgoing Head of Delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, Bob McKerrow who will be retiring from serving the Red Cross after 43 years. The farewell event, which was held in Colombo, was
17/06/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) along with the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka, has held a workshop for the public on “Good Practices of Climate Change Adaptation” aiming to raise awareness on mitigation practices towards climate change. This two-day workshop began at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference
11/06/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society has taken steps to ensure that the millions of migrant works, who are traveling to Middle Eastern and European countries in search of employment, will now be given added support and financial protection under a new agreement signed with the Government of Sri Lanka
30/05/2013 – Kokkuthuduwai, Mullativu: The city of Mullativu was in the headlines in 2009, as the location where the final battle of the civil war took place. However today its in the headlines again, but for a very different reason. This time its has nothing to do with war, but something to do with families,
21/05/2013 – Mannar, Sri Lanka: The Mannar Branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) recently vested in the public several facilities and services worth over two million Sri Lankan rupees. These were mainly invested on improving drinking water facilities by renovation of 8 common wells, also 1.5 million spent in Manthai west for improving personal
21/05/2013, Matale, Sri Lanka – The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s (SLRCS) Youth Wing organized a National Youth Camp recently in Matale, which was aimed at developing capacity of youth in the Red Cross. The main objectives of the camp was to disseminate tools developed through the “Youth as Agents of Behavioral Change” (YABC), to
08/05/2013, Island wide – The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society along with the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross celebrated the birth of Henry Dunant – The founder of the Red Cross on the 8th of May 2013. This year it has been 150
Mahieash Johnney – Snr. Manager of Communications in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Homepage Photo – Mukesh Singh) 19/03/2013 – Mannar, Sri Lanka – The first house under the Indian Housing (IHP) Project, with the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) & Sri Lanka Red Cross Society as implementing agencies
19/03/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka – The Organizational Development Forum 2013, bringing OD delegates and specialist from all Red Cross national societies within the South Asia Region came together in Colombo, Sri Lanka to discuss more on how the Red Cross can innovate in terms of serving the public and the most vulnerable in
