NDB makes a difference in the community with its employee volunteerism programme

NDB staff, completing another successful year of volunteering, dedicated their time and talents to benefit the community through various projects from renovating a laboratory to setting up a playground. Russell de Mel, NDB CEO said, “We support our employees’ efforts to volunteer for the causes they care about. Through these initiatives we were able to foster amongst NDB employee’s passion, enthusiasm, teamwork and also compassion for the community.”

Drinking water facilities

At the S.D.S Jayasinghe Central School in Dehiwala the laboratory was in a dilapidated state and renovating it was a pressing need. This was undertaken by the bank’s Administration, Security, Maintenance and CCPU Departments.

Dharmashoka Vidyalaya in Kandana, with over 800 students from low income families in the area, had minimal facilities and was not in a position to fund any development or improve the existing facilities.
Water was a major issue and here the Audit, Group Risk and Compliance Departments came to the rescue, setting up the infrastructure to provide drinking water facilities to the students, the bank, said explaining details of its staff CSR in a media release.

At the Peliyagoda Roman Catholic Primary School, Kelaniya, electricity supply to the school had been disconnected as robbers had damaged the wiring system and taken off the wiring codes, plugs points, switches, etc. The bank’s SME, Auto Finance and Refinance Departments repaired and restored the electricity connections of the school and also set up a children’s play area.

The release said the Corporate Office, IT, Legal and HR Departments partnered with the Centre for Banking Studies of the Central Bank for a unique CSR initiative aimed at enhancing societal value and provide pre-employment training to students who have a passion for banking. Thirty students from Chundikuli Girls College and St. Johns College in Jaffna were given an overview of the banking system in Sri Lanka. The Marketing, Retail Credit Operations, Project Finance, Corporate Banking and Finance Departments undertook to upgrade the facilities of two schools in Hambantota.

“The projects were formulated and carried out successfully whilst carrying out their day-to-day office activities and it was evident that they had not forgotten the human touch,” the release added.