LOLC Micro Credit awards 'Sisu Upahara'
LOLC Micro Credit Ltd (LOMC), the microfinance company of the LOLC
Group, successfully concluded the "Isuru Diriya Sisu Upahara Scholarship
Awards 2012" , with Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Governor of the Central Bank
of Sri Lanka gracing the ceremony as Chief Guest.
Group Director, Rohini Nanayakkara, Governor Central Bank, Ajith
Nivard Cabraal and Kapila Jayawardena, Group Managing
Director/CEO, being conducted to the venue. |
Director, Department of Supervision of Non-Bank Financial
Institutions of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka H. M. Ekanayake also
attended as a special invitee, together with LOLC Group Directors,
Rohini Nanayakkara, Chairperson, Kapila Jayawardena, Group Managing
Director/CEO - and Ravi Tissera, Director/Chief Executive Officer of
LOMC.
This event was held for the third consecutive year, where a total of
340 academically gifted students, from diverse locations around the
country, were recognized for their exceptional achievements at the Grade
five scholarship examination held earlier this year. Out of this, 244
top performing students were felicitated at a colourful awards ceremony
held at the Bishop's College Auditorium, Colombo, where they received
scholarships and educational equipment.
Hirushima Nethmi Pathiraja from Nikaweratiya, Rashmika Pasindu
Malshan from Mathugama, Vishmi Adithya from Elpitiya were the top three
students who received best results, each scoring over 183 marks at the
scholarship exam.
Students who are felicitated at the Isuru Diriya Scholarship Award
program are children of LOMC's group loan client segment, lack formal
access to financial services. In previous years too, LOMC has come
forward to assist the educational needs of children of the communities
they serve, by way of providing them scholarship exam preparatory
seminars. This programme has a three pronged approach, wherein LOMC
provides scholarships, gifts and skills development by way of
educational programmes and seminars, all aimed at developing the primary
educational needs of children from grass root communities.
Speaking about the programme, Kapila Jayawardena, GMD/CEO of the LOLC
Group said, "The opportunity to help our future leaders of tomorrow, to
empower them with knowledge and skills to further their educational
aspirations, is more than a philanthropic act for us. These are the
children of our clients. We are with them every step of the way, in
their struggle to fulfill financial empowerment and better living
standards. Our duty, apart from being their financial catalyst is to
ensure that their children, too, are given the opportunity to own a
future with immense possibilities."
Commenting, Ravi Tissera, Director/CEO of LOMC said, "Our scholarship
programme has been a remarkable success throughout the years. We are
humbled by the response we have received from parents, children as well
as educators. Three years since Isuru Diriya Sisu Upahara Scholarship
Awards scheme began, nearly 10,000 children of group loan clients
received exam preparatory seminars with the help of renowned educators,
and over 1,000 of those who passed the exam with exceptional results,
were felicitated and rewarded |