BAM group spreads smiles on Children's day

Picture shows children of the staff of the Dickwella Factory receiving presents from company officials.

BAM Holdings Ltd is donating funds to build a children's Intensive Care Unit at the Homagama General Hospital which includes the setting up of neo natal ventilation and other critical care facilities.

The project which was part of the company's Children's Day celebrations will be accompanied by another project that will see the setting up of a fully equipped modern day care Centre for the children of the group's workers from the company's three factories in Ranna in Tangalle. Both projects are to be completed by January 2008, the company said in a recent statement.

The BAM group of companies consists of seven vertically integrated companies in the apparel sector, providing total solutions to the quality conscious global buyer and value added solutions to other local manufacturers and exporters. The group has been around for 27 years and supplies renowned global label NEXT of the UK as a preferred partner in Sri Lanka, in addition to being a supplier for brands such as Marks and Spencer, Reebok as well as many others, with mainly children clothes.

All the companies of the BAM group invited the children of their staff members and workers at all locations on October 1 morning to a special felicitation ceremony symbolic of the International Children's Day occasion, where the children were shown the place where their parents work for their future and were given special gifts and a treat.

The Intensive Care Unit for the Homagama Hospital is a pledge that was made in addition to the pilot project of Rs.100 million that the group has undertaken to rebuild and develop the Homagama hospital as a long-term project, the company said.