Coca-Cola Sri Lanka looks back on 2005 CSR initiatives
Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka plans to build 50 houses in the tsunami affected areas for survivors of last December’s disaster. The company recently signed a MoU with Habitat for Humanity - a non-profit, organization that works to eliminate poverty housing around the world and to make housing a matter of conscience and action. Some homes have already been given to affected families.

“Volunteer work played a part in this project where our employees sacrificed their weekends to assist in the re-building process,” the company said in a statement. It said its corporate social responsibility initiatives in 2005 were constructed on three platforms - tsunami recovery, education and environmental protection.

In its CSR initiatives for 2006 Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka will continue to focus on education and water conservation. In the immediate aftermath of the December 26, 2004 tsunami, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka joined hands with the government and non profit organizations in quickly providing relief to the affected people and dispatched 180,000 litres of safe drinking water for the victims. Coca-Cola Sri Lanka is also working with the Ministry of Education to assist in re-building a large school in Galle using aid received from The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola Beverages also embarked on “Coke Sisu Diriya”, an initiative to uplift the educational conditions of school children island wide.

Through this initiative several projects focused on the long-term development of schools in and around the Biyagama area, where the firm has its bottling plant. It also gives support to the schools with IT education by supporting them with scarce resources such as computers, guidance on training issues, and providing in-house training. One such project involved 50 computers being donated to specially identified schools that were in dire need of such resources. Coca-Cola Sri Lanka also participated and hired in the recently held Job Fair for the disabled 2005.

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