Chevron Lubricants continue sponsorship of Deaf School's Netball, Volleyball and Softball Cricket

by Lal Gunesekera

SPONSORSHIP: Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC renewed its commitments with the Deaf School's Past Pupils Association of Ratmalana for a further three-year period as the official sponsor in Netball, Volleyball and Softball Cricket at Chevron House last week.

Managing Director/CEO of Chevron Lubricants, Kishee Gomes, speaking on the occasion said that his establishment was proud that they have been able to come forward once again as a sports partner to the Deaf School and that they have worked with the differently-abled students since 2002 in developing their sporting competencies through Netball, Volleyball and Cricket.

Their (Chevron and Deaf School) association initially started with the sponsorship of the Deaf Schools Netball Championship in 2002. With this, it became increasingly apparent for the need to promote sports among the differently abled children to groom them into proficient individuals capable of taking on the challenges in the future.

Continuing, Games, said that sports for the differently-abled students presents the opportunities to develop their athletic skills and enable them to experience the thrills of competition, and mould them into confident individuals capable of achieving greater things in life.

Through this agreement, Chevron Lubricants will continue to support Deaf Schools Past Pupils Associations annual Netball, Volleyball and Softball Cricket tournaments where nearly 25 deaf schools in the country demonstrate their sporting ability.

The President of the Deaf School Past Pupils Association, Shivantha Vivekananda, is the dynamic force behind the deaf schools sports activities in the country and with the renewal of this agreement with Chevron, the Association will continue to work towards creating harmony among these schools through sports.

Chevron has been closely associated with the Deaf and Blind community of Sri Lanka through its many projects.

The projects introduced comprises of two phases with emphasis on the refurbishment of schools and providing them with facilities for education purposes such as the construction of a laboratory and the presentation of Bralille machines. A sound proof room was also constructed for the Yasodhara School for the Blind in Balangoda.

In addition, Chevron, has been committed to the future growth in the community through its various other social responsibility projects such as their commitment to the Sri Lanka Council of Visually Handicapped Graduates, Matara Hospital project, Mobile Eye Clinic in Hikkaduwa, Haritha Gamana programme was first introduced to the students of Mahanama in 2005 and now extended to St. Paul's (Milagiriya), Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales (Moratuwa), preserving and maintaining the environment Tsunami Vocational Training Centres in Hikkaduwa and Thallala with USAID's reconstruction projects in the country.