A Light of Hope – The Annual MJF Kids Vesak Lantern Competition 2010

01.06.2010

The annual MJF Kids Vesak Lantern Competition was held on the 22nd of May at the MJF Kids Centre in Peliyagoda. This was the fourth consecutive year this competition was held.

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Strengthening the Underprivileged – Dhiriya Centre

20.05.2010

The MJF Charitable Foundation with the support of Gourmet Foods, Poland helps nearly 200 children a year in the Siyambalanduwa region..

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MJF Foundation inagurates center for women

09.12.2009

The first phase of the MJF Centre, a US$20 million development that will care for abused women, differently abled and Down Syndrome Children, marginalized children from urban slums in the area was inaugurated by Merrill J. Fernando, Dilmah Founder and Settlor of the MJF Charitable Foundation.

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Dilmah: Empowering the Differently Abled through AIDEX 2009

25.10.2009

The AIDEX (Aid to the Ex-Abled) Annual Sports Festival is organized by the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society which helps supply limbs for artificial limb users throughout ...

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Ethical Pappadam from our Moneragala Local Hero

30.06.2009

In 2007, Dharmadasa and Sumanawathie, his wife, were the proud but exploited owners of a small, mud walled ‘factory’ in which they produced pappadam, ...

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Charity tea pot sale to rebuild a school

In May 2009 Dilmah together with Hilton Colombo launched an innovative charity tea pot programme to raise funds to build a school for a rural village in Sri Lanka. This ...

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MJF Foundation facilitates Dignified Reintegration for 113 Reformed Prisoners

22.04.2009

The ‘Reform and Integrate’ Programme of the MJF Charitable Foundation is the first of its kind in Sri Lanka, and quite likely in ...

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Social Justice

10.19.2006

ImageThis photograph was taken at the opening of an MJF Foundation Preschool in southern Sri Lanka. The little girl’s traditional gesture of thanks is Read more...
Koulara, changing lives, the Dilmah Way

10.26.2007

ImageEarlier 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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