ComBank presents IT labs to schools

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon (ComBank) donated IT laboratories to 15 schools around the country over the past six weeks.

Students of Mirihanegama KV, Wariypola work at the computers in the new IT laboratory. A bank official looks on.

The Bank donated its 100th IT lab to the Mirihanegama Kanishta Vidyalaya in Wariyapola on September 26. By the first week of this month the bank had donated 115 IT laboratories. It has donated IT labs to 44 schools from January to date.

Schools in the nine provinces have been covered by this program which has benefited more than 100,000 students, and will serve the needs of thousands more in the years ahead, a bank spokesman said.

All schools that receive computer laboratories from the Commercial Banks are provided brand new computers with licensed software.

The schools are also provided accessories such as computer tables, printers and chairs. The Bank provides assistance to maintain and upgrade the computer labs when necessary.

The 44 IT laboratories donated by the Commercial Bank in 2013 fall within 77 community projects funded by the Bank during the year to date.

These include donations of medical equipment to eight healthcare institutions, eight other projects supporting initiatives linked with cultural heritage and assistance to disabled soldiers and 17 projects by individual branches under a regional CSR budget.

All centrally-funded Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives come under the purview of the Commercial Bank CSR Trust, set up in 2004.