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SLRCS hosts a Knowledge and Experience Sharing Field Visit for the Agriculture Students of UoP in response to the Ground Water Recharging for Disaster Preparedness Project COLOMBO-March 20, 2023: Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), Sri Lanka’s largest humanitarian organisation, hosted a two-day residential programme for undergraduates from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya

By Achini Kavindi (Acting Focal Point for First-Aid/Communications Officer of SLRCS) and Kate Marshall (Surge Communications of IFRC) KOLONNAWA, WESTERN PROVINCE, SRI LANKA – “My sister gets 2,900 rupees through the Samurdhi Fund and the Elderly Allowance. That’s all we have to live for a month”…. said an old woman from Kolonnawa living in a

06/01/2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka – We profusely mourn the demise of our Director General Mr. Neville Nanayakkara, who passed away at his residence this morning (06-01-2019). He was 71 years old at the time of his demise. Mr. Neville Nanayakkara was re-appointed as the Director General of the Society from the 10th of January 2016.

31/05/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Red Cross Society of China donated 100,000 USD to the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) supporting Sri Lanka’s relief and rebuilding efforts on the present disaster of flooding and landslides. On May 30, Chinese Ambassador H.E. Yi Xianliang, on behalf of the Red Cross Society of China, handed

23/03/2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka:  The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s Colombo Branch recently opened a newly constructed training center that will be the focal point for all Red Cross trainings, such as Disaster Management, First Aid, Health and Care Safety and many more that would be provided by the Red Cross. The centre worth

10/02/2016 – Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka: A new branch building constructed by support from the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Canadian Red Cross (CRC) was opened yesterday (09th Feb) with the participation of branch officials, staff and volunteers under the auspices of the President of Sri Lanka Red Cross Jagath

18/12/2015 – Jaffna, Sri Lanka: The President of Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) Jagath Abeysinghe says that in order to ensure a credible development and sustainability of services which is provided by the Red Cross can only be achieved if the branch network becomes more stronger in identifying the needs of their people, thus

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

26/12/2014 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society today commemorated the tenth commemoration of the Indian Ocean Tsunami that swept across the island nation ten years ago, killing over 35,000 people and affecting over two million. Today the President of the Sri Lanka along with the Governance observed two minutes of silence

25/12/2014 – Colombo, Sri Lanka: Heavy flooding in Sri Lanka since 19 December 2014, in 18 districts has affected an estimated 675,000 people according to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC). Six people have been reported dead due to floods & landslides. Currently, 80,736 people are living in 344 safety centers (evacuation centres). Its is reported that 3,175 houses