Rataviru Service Centre at SLBFE

Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera opened a Rataviruwo Service Centre recently at the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLFBE) office in Battaramulla. Many more service centres will be opened in other parts of the island where migrant workers are trained or where they come to transact business with SLBFE, to provide greater ease of access to services of the program in the near future.

Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, Chairman Amal Senalankadhikara and The Finance Company, Chairman Preethi Jayawardena at the opening of the new Rataviru Service Centre in Battaramulla.

Migrant workers could remit their earnings to finance livelihood means which will generate income streams back home under the program.

A Memorandum of Understanding between the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, the Sri Lanka Red Cross and The Finance Company PLC was signed in June to implement this program.

Through the new centre the migrant workers are also made aware of the services available to them through the global network of Red Cross Societies and how to seek assistance its assistance in times of distress and natural calamities.

Through the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society the migrant workers will be able to restore links with their families in Sri Lanka.

Migrant workers will be trained in first aid to add value to their services.

The Finance Company PLC will present a range of financial solutions tailor-made to improve the living conditions of migrant workers and their dependents.

The company through its 60 branches islandwide will take the program to the doorstep of the migrant worker.