Odel cleans-up Sigiriya

Callous visitors defile the historic Sigiriya rock with 40 sack loads of rubbish each day, an alarming fact brought vividly alive by employees of Odel who undertook to clean up the site to mark World Environment Day this year.

Joined by over 100 volunteers including 16 children from a nearby school, a 61-strong team from Odel scoured the precincts of the rock fortress, collecting plastic bottles, polythene bags, lunch wraps and similar detritus abandoned at the site.