Commercial Bank’s CSR trust donates landmark 100th IT Laboratory to Mirihanegama Kanista Vidyalaya
View(s):The Commercial Bank of Ceylon last week presented its 100th IT Laboratory to the Mirihanegama Kanista Vidyalaya.
The school serves the 247-family community of Mirihanegama. The bank also assisted the villagers to establish a milk collection project with the help of dairy companies and presented a number of microfinance loans to residents, according to a statement from the bank.
“Synchronising its nationally-significant IT education project with a new CSR initiative, a sustainability-linked Village Development and Livelihood Diversification programme, the bank renewed its association with this village, to which it has extended substantial support in the past,” the statement said.
The fully-equipped and furnished IT Lab presented to the village school will benefit its 173 students, taking the total number of students country-wide currently served by the 100 IT Labs donated by the Commercial Bank to 100,000 students.
“We are very happy to donate our 100th IT Lab to the Mirihanegama Kanishta Vidyalaya and also to start a village rehabilitation programme here,” said Chairman of the CSR Trust of Commercial Bank Lakshman Hulugalle said.