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Last month, a new, fully equipped High Dependency Unit for patients requiring critical care was opened at the Nawalapitiya District Hospital, the total cost of Rs. 25 million funded by the Merrill J. Fernando Charitable Foundation (MJFCF). 

Over 200 agribusinesses in Sri Lanka are now better informed on the business need for climate change adaptation following a successful webinar, ‘Experience from Industry Leaders,’ organised by The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Australian Government-funded Market Development Facility (MDF).

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with the Australian Government-funded Market Development Facility (MDF), will host a series of events titled ‘The Business Case for Climate Change Adaptation for Agribusinesses’ to increase awareness of local agribusinesses on the risks posed by climate change to their business models.

Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka - The Merrill J. Fernando High Dependency Care Facility was inaugurated on 16th August 2021 at the, Nawalapitiya District General Hospital. The facility is funded by Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company Plc and its associate Kahawatte Plantations PLC with the facilitation of the MJF Charitable Foundation. Named after the Ceylon Teamaker who devoted his life to tea, the facility will provide specialised medical care for the predominantly tea estate workers in Nawalapitiya, also serving the Central Province.

The Centre for Biomedical Innovation (CeBI), Sri Lanka’s pioneer centre dedicated to the development and commercialisation of biomedical products, is to hold an online workshop on ‘Affordable Motion Capturing for Gait Analysis, Clinical Rehabilitation and Sports’ on 30 July from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. This will be the sixth workshop held as part of the Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference – MERCon 2021.

Over 20,000 business leaders joined heads of state, civil society leaders and UN chiefs to call for increased corporate ambition to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 during extraordinary Leaders’ Summit

Tea was once prized as a wonderful, healthy and exotic herb. It has not changed, and is still nature’s gift, yet from certain perspective, the herb progressively lost that allure. The change was not in tea but in the perspective – and actions – of the businesses which bought over the tea businesses that made tea great, and then changed their direction from passion to profit.

The auction raised Rs. 2.3 million which was matched twice over by Dilmah’s MJF Charitable Foundation as part of its three year – Rs. 300 million initiative to support communities in the estate sector. The funds committed are already at work to support the plantation community with the prospect of several other plantation entities joining the effort. 

Sri Lanka’s ‘Mr. Dilmah’ celebrates 71 years of brewing cups of kindness

The Hilton, Colombo supported a visit by the students of the current intakes of the Empower Culinary and Hospitality School (ECHS) which introduced them to all aspects of a hotel and its inner workings.

Dilmah Tea was awarded the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2020 by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, with their independent panel of judges assessing the company’s commitment to quality, tradition, customer, employees, innovation, ethics, integrity, and sustainability. 

Dilmah Conservation’s focus towards education and awareness, has resulted in 15 extensively researched publications – broadly classified into field guides on Sri Lanka’s flora and fauna, and books on culture and heritage, Ayurveda, and organic home gardening.