Ceylinco Nena Sarana empowers students
Ceylinco Consolidated has launched an ambitious project to empower
students in Sri Lanka to build their lives through e-Learning material.
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Chairman of Ceylinco Dr. Lalith Kotelawala with First Lady,
Shiranthi Rajapaksa at the event. |
Under this new project - Ceylinco Nena Sarana - 500 of the country’s
most deserving schools will be gifted with 500 brand new,
state-of-the-art computers and e-Learning material. Ceylinco Nena Sarana
will thus touch the lives of 300,000 students, making it the largest
education oriented CSR project undertaken by the private sector in Sri
Lanka.
Architect of this laudable project and Chairman of Ceylinco
Consolidated Dr. Lalith Kotelawala said, “I believe that access to
knowledge, which will be facilitated by this project, will have a
tremendous impact on the students, and that this in turn, will benefit
the development of our country in this era when the use of IT is a vital
component in nation building and economic progress”.
Ceylinco Nena Sarana has as its primary aim, to assist the
development of rural education by providing supplementary educational
material to students in remote areas access, which in turn, will open a
new window of opportunity to build, and thus change their lives. If not
for Ceylinco Nena Sarana, these schools stand little or no chance of
obtaining a computer or e-Learning material to educate and train their
students.
Launched with sponsorship of The Seylan Bank PLC, Ceylinco Life and
The Finance Company PLC, Ceylinco Nena Sarana will also provide the 500
schools with a monthly study pack for a period of 36 months.
Teachers and senior students of these schools will also receive
instructions on the handling and proper usage of the computers and its
installed programmes so that they can, in turn, operate the programme on
their own by instructing students in lower grades.
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