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Community caring - A Dilmah five year show of strength to the differently abled through AIDEX 2008 |
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28.10.2008 AIDEX (Aid to the Ex-Abled) Annual Sports festival is organized by an organisation that supplies limbs for amputees throughout the island. The AIDEX sports day is the culmination of a programme designed to inspire and strengthen disabled children, men and women using artificial limbs and wheelchairs. Dilmah has supported the event since 2003. |
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Creche with a view – MJF Foundation’s 71st Child Development Centre on Easdale Estate |
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30.06.2008 Dilmah Founder and MJF Foundation Settlor Merrill J. Fernando last week declared open the 71st MJF Foundation supported Child Development Centre (CDC) in the Easdale Division of Somerset Estate. The MJF Foundation renovated or constructed CDCs currently care for upto 3,500 estate children below the age of 5. These children are provided with a nourishing meal each day as part of a programme to offer them a caring and stimulating environment in which to learn and develop while ... |
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Prison Break - helping reformed prisoners become good citizens |
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16.06.2008 The MJF Foundation’s Small Entrepreneur Programme (SEP) has empowered underprivileged people in the most remote parts of Sri Lanka. In October 2007 SEP took on a new angle – helping reformed prisoners escape the stigma of their past misdeeds and incarceration. Earlier this week the Foundation’s unique ‘Reform & Integrate’ SEP programme – the first of its kind in Sri Lanka – complete the second stage of several that target 300 entrepreneurs ... |
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Zero to Hero: Empowering Moneragala |
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10.06.2008 The remote and beautiful province of Moneragala is Sri Lanka’s poorest. In 2007 the MJF Foundation initiated its ‘Local Heroes’ initiative which was ... |
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The Merrill J. Fernando Challenge Trophy for Excellence in Blind Cricket |
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09.05.2008 The partnership between Dilmah Tea and international cricket has long been recognised as a prestigious and logical one between Sri Lanka's two great icons. Two ... |
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Koul Ara : a community empowered |
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15.04.2008 Traditional Sri Lankan New Year was never this good for the men and women of isolated Koul Ara, a tiny village in Southern Sri Lanka . Less ... |
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MJF Foundation extends Women’s Empowerment programmes on International Women’s Day |
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10.03.2008 International Women’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s and is the global day connecting all women around the world inspiring them to ... |
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10.19.2006  This photograph was taken at the opening of an MJF Foundation Preschool in southern Sri Lanka. The little girl’s traditional gesture of thanks is
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Koulara, changing lives, the Dilmah Way |
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10.26.2007  Earlier this year the MJF Charitable Foundation adopted the isolated and deprived village of Koulara, within its Local Heroes initiative. The community was dependant on menial labour manually harvesting sugarcane and the Foundations objective was to empo... |
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Nurturing children from the plantations |
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02.21.2008  The MJF Charitable Foundation, that has aimed to uplift the lives of underprivileged children through initiatives that provide them the tools to shape their future, has been actively involved in the caring and educational instruction of plantation childr... |
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