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MONTHLY NEWSLETTERVOLUME - 05 - ISSUE - 05

May 2013

HIGHLIGHTS:

Blood Donation Programmes and Shramadana Campaigns. Dissemination Programmes. Branch Annual General Meeting Health Awareness and Sponsorship Programmes. Collaborative, other Red Cross Activities and Feedbacks.

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BRANCH PROFILE

04 Divisions with 17units

Active Members 1101 Junior Members 963 Kekulu Members 359 Life Memberships 176 Volunteers 162

CORE AREAS

Health Disaster Management Organizational

Development

PromotingHumanitarian Values

BRANCH COMMITTEE ANDMANAGEMENT

Jagath AbeysingheHony. Chairman

Kithsiri RathnapriyaHony. Secretary

Kumari KothalawalaBranch ExecutiveOfficer

Editor: Tuan Rifkhan Arbee

World Red Cross Day Celebrations.

The World Red Cross Day is the annual celebration held on the 08th ofMay to represent the 7 principles of the Red Cross and the Red CrescentMovement. It was on this memorable day that the founder of the RedCross, Sir Jean Henry Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland.

Every year the volunteers of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS)

get together on this memorable day and organize celebrations in thememory of Sir Henry Dunant and this year the Red Cross and RedCrescent Movement is celebrating a 150 years.

The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, Colombo Branch organized a walk inthe Maharagama Division to commemorate the World Red Cross Daywhere our volunteers walked from the Wivekarama Junction to theNawinna Raja Maha Viharaya and a Bodi Pujawa was organized by theMahragama Division and the Kandawalawaththe Unit in the respectivetemples in the area.

The Heraliyawala unit in the Homagama Division organized an ArtCompetition where 58 Children at the age of 6-11 participated in thecompetition and the subject of the pictures that were drawn wereregarding volunteer services.

Meanwhile a street drama was organized by the Junior Red Cross (JRC)Circle of the D.S. Senanyake College where 50 JRC members wereinvolved in organizing this drama. The Drama was about the educatingthe students on Red Cross and Health, this was later followed up by alecture on education for A/L students.

ColomboBranchSLRCS ColomboSLRCS

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SRI LANKA RED CROSS SOCIETY - COLOMBO BRANCH MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

VOLUME - 05 - ISSUE 05 / MAY 2013

No. Date Venue No. of Volunteers

1 01.05.2013 Kandawalawaththe Sadun Uyana Temple 35

2 04.05.2013 Welivita (Road to the Village) 30

3 10.05.2013 Wethara Maha Vidyalaya 184 11.05.2013 Athurugiriya Hospital ( 18

5 12.05.2013 Egoda Uyana (Entrance to the village) 35

6 18.05.2013 Vivekarama Temple 307 19.05.2013 Megoda Kolonnawa Temple 15

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lood Donation Programmes

ood Donation Programmes were conducted on the 04th and the 19th of May 2013 in the Ambalangoda ande Siyambalagoda Red Cross Units. 60 pints of blood were collected from the Ambalangoda unit and 62nts of blood were collected from the Siyambalagoda Unit.

he main objective of this programme is to encourage the existing donors to regularly donate blood,ncourage new people to donate blood on a voluntary basis and promoting the protection of individualealth.

ugs were also distributed by the SLRCS Colombo Branch to all donors and a total of 122 mugs werestributed.

hramadana Campaigns

ramadana campaigns were organized by the Red Cross units as mentioned below. The main objective ofs campaign was to make sure that the community of the Heraliyawala area have dirt free area and alsocreasing the awareness of re cycling & re using solid material to create a greener future for the futureneration.

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ssemination in Garments & Junior Red Cross Circles

DisseminationProgrammes

Dharmaraja

Vidyalaya16 Participants

10.05.2013

Watawala

Plantations41 Participants

23.05.2013

Serendib FlourMill

15 Participants

13.05.2013

Brandix Casualwear

40 Participants

11.05.2013

uring dissemination programmes the history of the Red Cross, its seven fundamental principles, ourumanitarian services along with the Geneva conventions are mentioned and described in detail to theommunity to give a better understanding about the Red Cross movement.

dissemination programme was done for a total number of 16 students in Colombo district schools duringe formation of the Junior Red Cross Circles (JRC). Dissemination exams were also done to make sure thate students have a proper knowledge on the Red Cross.

3 Numbers of Dissemination Programmes were done in the Private sector where a total number of 45articipants were present for the dissemination.

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No. Post Name1 Hony. Chairman Mr. Jagath Abeysinghe2 Hony. Vice Chairman Mr. Ranjith Wijesooriya3 Hony. Secretary Mr. Kithsiri Rathnapriya4 Hony. Treasurer Mrs. Sonali Jayasinghe5 Hony. Committee Member Mr. D.M. Hemapala6 Hony. Committee Member Mr. Kamal Perera7 Hony. Committee Member Mr. Kamal Dharmapriya8 Hony. Committee Member Mr. Amarasiri Perera9 Hony. Committee Member Mrs. Nimali Nanayakkara

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ranch Annual General Meeting

he Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place on the 26 th of May 2013 at the Royal Restaurant ine Branch Premises. The AGM was observed by one of our Hony. Central Governing Board (CGB) Membersr. Anton Victoria.

ur Branch Executive Officer Mrs. Kumari Kothalawala conducted a presentation on the monthly unitlection criteria, the 2 year branch budget and progress report which educated the 84 numbers of

elegates present from Homagama, Kaduwela, Maharagama and Moratuwa Red Cross divisions.

he Branch also selected the best Red Cross Units for the Month of March and April 2013 where theeraliyawala Unit was selected as the best Red Cross Unit for the Month of March 2013 and Lahirugama waslected as the best Red Cross unit for the Month of April 2013, an award and a gift of Rupees 5000/= wasdividually given to both these units.

he Hony. Branch Committee selected during the AGM will be the committee for another 4 consecutivears.

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ponsorship Programmes conducted by E3X Global (PVT) Ltd.

X Global one of Sri Lankas leading Software Company, donated 10 numbers of DVD players and Selfarning English language kits to be distributed in Schools in the Colombo District.

e equipment was handed over to the Hony. Chairman of the Colombo Branch Mr. Jagath Abeysinghe by

e Chairman of E3X Global (PVT) Ltd. Mr. Amila Kankanamage.

ealth Awareness Programmes

Health Awareness Programme on Nutirition was conducted by Dr. Gnanaka L. Pandiperuma on the 29 th ofay 2013 for the community of the Heraliyawala area. The main objective of this programme was to givewareness to the community on types of food which contain good nutrition.

eanwhile a Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) Awareness Programme was conducted on the 18th of May13 at the Megoda Kolonnawa Temple for the community of the Megoda Kolonnawa area. The mainjective of this programme was to educate the community on the prevention of such diseases.

ollaborative Programmes

collaborative programme for the No Tobacco Day was conducted with the Alcohol and Drugsformation Centre (ADIC) and the SLRCS Colombo Branch on the 31st of May 2013 in the Heraliyawala area.

aflets and stickers were distributed regarding the prevention using tobacco in the community, the mainbjective of this programme was to educate the community on the effects of Tobacco to the Human Bodyd the diseases it causes.


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No. Activity No. OfVolunteers

Date

1 Art Competition - Kandawalawaththa 48 28.05.2013

2 Dansal Programme - Welivita 24.05.2013

3 Kekulu Programme Kandwalawaththa 13 15.05.2013

4 Avurudu Festival Kandawalawaththa andAmbalangoda

300 04.05.201314.05.2013

5 Wesak Lantern Competition - Heraliyawala 20 25.05.2013

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eedbacks

ear Readers,ease be kind enough to send your feedback or comments to [email protected] I would

ke to know what you all feel about our humanitarian activities or any other comments regarding themprovement of the newsletter.

hope each and everyone enjoys reading our monthly newsletter.

aithfully yours,uan Rifkhan Arbeeditor.

ther Red Cross Activities.

SRI-LANKA RED CROSS SOCIETY - COLOMBO BRANCH

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Fax (General): 00 94 011 2178881

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