Sunshine Holdings focus on education and healthcare

Sunshine Holdings PLC has focused its Corporate Social Responsibility projects in the education and healthcare sectors and inititated projects through0ut the year. The group's CSR manager along with the HR heads of the Group are leading this effort.

Director Sunshine Holdings Plc, Shyam Sathasivam presentsng the cheque to Chairman CBB, Nick Nicolaou

Group Managing Director, Vish Govindasamy said "An integral part of our vision is to be a role model coporate citizen and respected employer and our core values of being socially responsible and contributing to the nation building drive our CSR commitments in these key sectors"

In the education sector, the Group recently donated Rs one Million to the Council for Business with Britain (CBB) which has been working through the British Council on the English Language Teaching (ELT) project intended to upgrade the English skills among the teachers in rural areas. The initiative would help improve the quality of English teaching in schools as English, being a link language, is essential in this arena.

This funding will be targeted towards teachers in the upcountry areas, where the group subsidiaries plantations are located, as a community improvement project. The group's plantations subsidiary, Watawala Plantations PLC, has participated in significant projects to build skills in these areas, and has been running its own vocational training centre for disabled children of its plantation associates for over a decade.

The Group has donated intra-ocular lenses, consumables and medication to 335 needy patients in the North and the East for cataract surgeries for the National Secretariat of Vision 2020, a project designed as a part of the implementation of the National Eye Care Program.

This project is endorsed by the Ministry of Health to prevent and control avoidable blindness as a part of national health system.