By next month, a total of 20 volunteers from IBM, from 19 countries, including the USA, UK, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Ireland, India, Slovakia and Switzerland, will travel to Sri Lanka to work with six non governmental organisations as part of the company's Corporate Service Corps (CSC) international volunteerism programme, according to IBM's local Country General Manager Chrishan Fernando.
He further signalled this would entail "a lot of work with universities as well as government would be the cornerstone of the programme as we go on". Also highlighted was a project in Hambantota where 500 simple, child-centric KidSmart computer units had been gifted to schools.
According to a company statement, the CSC programme was launched worldwide last year and Sri Lanka was among just 14 countries hosting the first phase of this CSC volunteers. |
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