Avery Dennison partners Brandix

Brandix and Avery Dennison have built a water storage tank, a new block of toilets, new wash-rooms and repaired the abandoned toilets of Kanduboda Maha Vidyalaya in Delgoda, Kelaniya.

Avery Dennison Sri Lanka, General Manager Moji Akingbade (left), T and S Buttons Lanka, Chief Executive Officer, Kanchana Ranadeera and principal Ms K. A. D. S. Kumarapeli at the handing over of the water supply and sanitation facilities to Kanduboda Maha Vidyalaya.

This 100-year-old institution has 350 students and 20 teachers.

Head of CSR at Brandix, Anusha Alles said the school's needs were identified by the Group company T and S Buttons Lanka, after which Brandix invited Avery Dennison, which has its manufacturing facilities in the Biyagama Export Processing Zone, to join the effort to find solutions for it.

“With the support of the Avery Dennison Foundation, Avery Dennison Sri Lanka is extremely pleased to team up with Brandix in promoting clean and comfortable surroundings for young students of Kanduboda Maha Vidyalaya,” said Avery Dennison Sri Lanka, General Manager Moji Akingbade.

“The Foundation advocates a community outreach by the employees of Avery Dennison around the world to realise the Foundation's vision, which is to ‘inspire human promise towards a more intelligent and sustainable world'.” The water supply and sanitation facilities constructed through this corporate sector partnership were handed over to the school on March 7.

“Plans are under way to donate computers and contribute to a skills development program for the students,” a spokesman for the company said.