Sirio Ltd conducts CSR initiative at 28 childrens’ and elders’ homes in a single day
View(s):Sirio Ltd, a leading garment manufacturing and exporting company in Badalgama, recently engaged in a gigantic CSR initiative where employees, in a single day, visited 28 Children’s’ and Elders’ homes in Western and North Western provinces to provide the inmates with their requirements and entertainment.
Sirio members cleaning the garden of an Elders home.
The initiative was spearheaded by company CEO Felix Fernando. The company selected 20 Children’s’ Homes and eight Elders Homes in Gampaha, Puttalam and Kurunegala districts and looked into the requirements of those places prior to launching the program. Sirio’s employees volunteered to do the surveys and to provide labour, according to a media release issued by.
At the requests of these institutions, dry rations, sweets, clothing, children’s’ clothing, bed sheets, stationary, school books, medicine, water filters, reading material, toys, photo-copying machines, steel cupboards, umbrellas, cleaning material, gas cookers, perfume and cash were donated by Sirio.
The company also organised pilgrimages to Thalawila St Anthony’s Church at the request of two Elders homes. Employees colour-washed premises of these needy people and cleaned their gardens in addition to washing their linen. “1200 odd employees of Sirio formed into teams and engaged in this noble cause. They spent all-day-long with the inmates of the Children’s’ and Elders homes and offered them with gifts purchased from their own money. Sirio provided lunch and tea for all the inmates,” the release said. Manju Abeydheera, Maintenance Engineer of Sirio Ltd who led the Sirio team at the CSR programme, said the employees of the company had dedicated themselves to find the locations and to launch the programme. “Some of these places were in the vicinity where our employees live.
The feedback they have derived when visiting these places is touching. Inmates of these Children’s and Elders homes have said that, donors often vanish soon after making their donations. They have told our employees what they need most is companionship and togetherness. Thus we kept aside all our other work and spent the whole day with these people. Our employees entertained them with music and singing and they too joined us. It was really enjoyable yet touching. Once we left in the evening we could see their eyes moisten with tears.
Thus we decided to visit them in every weekend as teams to be with them,” said Mr. Abeydheera.