Sunshine Holdings companies contribute towards national objectives

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Through the continuation of long-term community initiatives aligned with national objectives, particularly in the areas of health and education, companies of the Sunshine Holdings group made a lasting positive impact on the lives of many individuals in the past financial year.

The conglomerate’s healthcare arm, Sunshine Healthcare, aligning with the ‘Vision 2020 Sri Lanka national programme for the prevention of avoidable blindness’, enabled 250 individuals to improve their eyesight by sponsoring cataract surgeries. In the past four years, Sunshine Healthcare has sponsored 1,085 cataract surgeries in total.

Contributing further towards national objectives, Sunshine Healthcare donated ‘Mospel’ Mosquito Repellent to support the government’s dengue preventive effort.

Sunshine Healthcare also continued its mission of providing quality medicinal supplies and nutritional and medical supplements for those unable to afford them, by donating nutritional supplements intended for 5,500 people to the Cancer Hospital, elders’ homes, children’s homes, up-country estates and a number of base hospitals. In addition, the company also supported 3,500 individuals through health camps conducted in areas particularly in which health standards were lacking.

Also recognising the importance of the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the estate sector, Sunshine Holdings’ plantation sector subsidiary, Watawala Plantations, further strengthened its efforts to enhance the living conditions of its associates and the community residing in estates managed by the company. Watawala Plantations improved housing facilities and other amenities in estates, assisted physically-challenged individuals residing in estates and also focused substantially on supporting the educational aspirations of children of the company’s associates.

Buoyed by the success of its Vocational Training Centre for the physically challenged in the Kenilworth Estate established in 1998, which won an Asian CSR Leadership award and was recognized among the country’s best CSR projects, another Vocational Training Centre was launched in Lindula for the benefit of 86 adults and children by Watawala Plantations in March 2015. Continuous efforts by Watawala Plantations in its estates have yielded substantial improvements in healthcare indicators (institutional births, maternal deaths, malnutrition rate) as well as educational indicators (primary school attendance, etc.) over the years among members of its estate community.

The Sunshine Holdings group and group companies also contributed to many other initiatives particularly in healthcare and education. Sunshine Holdings donated many equipment, including an Electrocardiograph to the Lindula Hospital while Watawala Tea, another group company, continued a unique initiative to celebrate and foster student/teacher relations – ‘Watawala Guru Upahara’.

“To make a lasting impact through its community endeavours, Sunshine Holdings has continuously focused on long-term initiatives aligned with national objectives, as the positive synergy from the collective efforts of all those supporting these programmes can lead to better and more sustainable results,” Sunshine Holdings PLC Group Managing Director Vish Govindasamy said.

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