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Crowning 30 new ambitious chefs, who are ready take up their first step as professionals in the hospitality industry, the certificate awarding ceremony of the 9th Batch of West and the 4th Batch of East - Empower Culinary and Hospitality School (ECHS) of Dilmah’s MJF Charitable Foundation was successfully held recently. 

mission to establish 1 million cashew trees through the Greening Batticaloa Programme in Kalkudah. Fulfilling the promise that Dilmah Founder Merrill J. Fernando made to the first recipients of the cashew plants in 2010, on his 92nd birthday - 06th May 2022 - Dilmah reached a milestone in this initiative with the opening of a cashew processing centre by the Merrill J Fernando Charitable Foundation in its eastern MJF Centre for Dignified Empowerment. 

As part of an initiative to support empowerment with dignity, the MJF Foundation has enabled over 2,000 entrepreneurs from less fortunate communities.

Well known philanthropist Ian Karan from Germany with MJF Foundation helps build a much needed complex for women patients at Point Pedro Base Hospital.

Scoring a hat-trick of accolades at the 2021 Presidential Export Awards, ethical tea company Dilmah has been selected Most Globally Outreached Sri Lankan Brand, Market Diversified Exporter and Contributor to Sustainable Development in the Export Industry for 2019/20.

Dilmah supports the global campaign “Orange the World: 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” in Sri Lanka.