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NDB Bank ties up with ACBT

NDB Bank together with ACBT will now offer students NDB Banks’ Dream Maker Educational Loans at preferential interest rates with personalised services.

From Left : Manager Personal Loans and Sales NDB Bank, Jeevan Arulampalam, Vice President Head - Retail Banking and Marketing NDB Bank, Indrajit Wickramasinghe, College Director ACBT Dr. P. M. C. Thilakeratne and Marketing Manager ACBT Sudash Liyanage.

They hope to help Sri Lankan students overcome financial obstacles and pursue educational goals through this partnership. NDB Bank will visit students of ACBT for loans and financial advice at the ACBT Colleges in Colombo and Kandy.

The Dream Maker Educational Loans are available for salaried employees professionals and sole proprietors who aspire to further their education and to parents who wish to finance their children’s education.

The Dream Maker Educational Loan was introduced by NDB Bank following its recognition of the importance of tertiary education to build a knowledge-based society in Sri Lanka.

ACBT is a member of a global network of institutes that provide university level courses in business and technology. Since the establishment of ACBT, the institute has been in close affiliation with the Edith Cowan University, a highly reputable and internationally recognised university in Australia.

NDB Bank understands that studying abroad is a significant investment and that pursuing educational dreams can be a challenge without proper financial support. As a means of making educational aspirations become a reality, NDB Bank offers its Dream Maker Educational Loans to students who wish to pursue further studies.

Confidence Associates - 30 years in foreign employment

The origins of Foreign Employment in Sri Lanka, on the present scale, could be traced to 1975 when this subject was solely handled by the Ministry of Labour through the Employment Exchange at Lotus Road, Colombo. A few hundred Sri Lankans sought foreign employment at that time, through this system.

In 1977, the Foreign Employment Division was set up under the Department of Labour of Sri Lanka.

Thereafter, private employment agents were issued approved licences to conduct business in an organised and institutionalised manner. This was the beginning of the acknowledgement of the vast potential of this trade, and the benefits accrued to the country, over the period of time, are immense.

The demand for Sri Lankan workers was great and was left untapped until the late seventies. As the trade was growing in recognisable proportions, the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment was established in 1985 by an Act of Parliament.

In such an environment, Confidence Associates came into being in February 1979 as a small entity. Managing Partner / Lic- ensee, A. C. M. Ifthie supported by a small staff began providing sustainable employment for Sri Lankans through his business of foreign employment.

Today Confidence Associates celebrates 30 long years of continuous excellent service with trusted stability and credible performance.

Confidence Associates has rendered a yeoman service to the personal lives of workers, who sought employment through them, to all the staff who had served them, throughout the years and to all their associated and affiliated ancillary services through this venture.

Orange Electric donates eye ward

Deputy Director General Public Sector Dr. Mahipala, MD, Orange Electric, Kushan Kodituwakku and CEO Orange Electric Kamil Hussain.

A much felt need for the South was fulfilled recently with the opening of the eye ward and operating theatre at the Base Hospital Balapitiya. Renovated and refurbished at a cost of Rs. two million by Orange Electric under its CSR program “Light for You Sight for Me” the new eye ward and surgical unit will ease the burden of the 350 patients currently on the waiting list for medical attention for their optical medical needs.

The renovation of this ward was undertaken on the request of the Health Ministry as part of the national plan “Vision 2020” with the objective of reducing preventive blindness.

Blindness due to cataract which is a common cause for preventive blindness, is one such issue that needs addressing. Fortunately blindness arising from cataract is reversible if timely corrective action is taken.

Recognizing this fact, Orange Electric decided to assist those organizations that work towards the goal of reducing preventive blindness.

The Ministry of Health and Nutrition, The Sri Lanka Federation for the Visually Handicapped, and The Sri Lanka Eye Foundations Orange Electric launched its CSR program “Light for you Sight for me” in July 2006 with the aim of funding the activities of the Federation and helping needy patients to undergo cataract surgery.

Since its inception, this program has financed and facilitated more than 1,000 cataract operations, provided spectacles for the needy, conducted eye camps around the country and provided cutting edge and mission critical surgical operating machines to eye units in various hospitals in the country, of which the most recent project being the renovation and opening of the Base Hospital Balapitiya Eye Ward.

HNB Customer Centres open on April 10 and 11

In view of the Sinhala and Tamil Avurudhu Season HNB Customer Centres will be kept open for Business on April 10 and 11, both bank holidays from 9.00 am to 1.30 p.m.. This will greatly benefit a large number of customers who will be able to carry out their banking transactions more conveniently.

Customers will be able to receive payments for Moneygrams and other inward remittances, carry out cash and cheque deposits as well as withdrawals and also access certain other front office functions/services., under the HNB’s Holiday Banking Service introduced two years ago as a value addition from the Bank.