18/03/2013 – Himidurawa, Ampara – The sun started to rise on Saturday the 16th bringing new hopes and dreams to a special family in rural Ampara in the Eastern shores of Sri Lanka. That day Dilshani Lakmali, who’s 15 years old got up early and got dressed not to go to school. School was closed
06/03/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) today handed over 3 ambulances worth 28.5 million rupees to 3 hospitals in the Eastern Province. Trincomalee General Hospital, Gomarankadawala Base Hospital & Padaviya Base Hospital are the recipients of this new ambulances. The handover ceremony took place in Colombo today (06/03/2013) under
08/03/13 – Boose, Sri Lanka: The Restoring Family Links (RFL) Department of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) visited the Boose Immigration Detention Centre to look into the welfare of 72 immigrant detainees from Bangladesh & Myanmar. They were taken into custody while being stranded in the Indian Ocean on a raft trying to
07/02/2013 – Puttalam, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) with support from the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) handed over 10,000/- LKR to 200 families in the Puttalam district as support towards livelihood resumption for people affected from the recent severe drought. The President of SLRCS Jagath
24/01/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Red Cross Society of China donated a 50,000 USD towards the flood and climate change affects operations that is currently run by the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society. The cheque was handed over by the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Wu Jianho to the Director General of SLRCS Tissa
11/03/2013 – Vavuniya, Sri Lanka: A new book containing success stories from the Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRCS) Micro Economic Initiative Programme titled “New sunrise & a new beginning” was launched in Vavuniya recently. The event was graced by the Head of Delegation of the ICRC in Sri Lanka Yves Giovanni along with the Treasurer
21/01/2013 – Kurunegala, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) supported by the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has taken steps to assist 20,000 families in 7 districts that faced a severe drought situation during 2012 in rural Sri Lanka. The major intervention is to provide 10,000 rupee
Climate Change Awareness Campaign National Event 2013
03/01/2013 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: Despite the inclement weather being stable for couple of days, while people around the world celebrated the New Year the number of people affected by the rain and floodwaters continues to grow in all parts of Sri Lanka. As of 2nd January 2013, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says around
28/12/2012 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: Despite the inclement weather being stable for couple of days, the number of people affected by the rain and flood waters continues to grow in all parts of Sri Lanka. As of 28th December 2012 the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says 359,619 people in 21 districts are victims of the inclement
