LOLC initiates Rs.500 mln humanitarian project
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Responding to Sri Lanka’s emergency crisis, LOLC launched LOLC Divi Saviya, an island-wide humanitarian effort in May this year.
Phase one of this project supported needy household units covering all 25 districts of the country within a period of one month. This also enabled LOLC to further discover millions of people across the country, who are already below the poverty line and are facing major disruption by the loss of livelihoods, food shortage, and the amplifying cost of essential items. During this initial drive, number of Divisional Secretariats with extensive demands were marked while a number of vulnerable untapped segments were
also identified, LOLC said in a media release.
This time, focussing on an on-going and a broader programme, LOLC has renewed its strengths to another season of Divi Saviya commencing in July 2022 and will cover the 25 districts over a period of three months in three different cycles, tossed back-to-back. The road map to Divi Saviya phase two recognises the essentiality to cushion the knock-on effects on people’s lives at this critical juncture while envisioning for a longer recovery effort.
Identifying the sharp decline in food security for the most vulnerable segments of the country, Divi Saviya phase two focuses on organising direct provision of food resources to support the elder’s homes, children’s facilities and visually impaired units in addition to the selected households. The immediate critical relief, is estimated to distribute a total number of 125,000 packages totally valued at Rs.500 million. Each package will carry the basic staples and dry rations weighing 10 kilograms inclusive of the items ranging from rice, flour, dhal, sugar, noodles, tea, salt, soya-meat to spices.
Commenting on the Divi Saviya phase two, Kapila Jayawardena, Group Managing Director of LOLC Holdings PLC stated: “At a time that our people are finding it impossible to encounter sufficient day-today earnings to feed their families, the emergency appeal that LOLC has launched in support of Sri Lanka will protect hundreds-of-thousands vulnerable households in need. LOLC Group has always been fuelled by the values and commitment towards uplifting the lives and livelihoods of our communities while sustaining the nation through calamities and emergencies as a prompt community facilitator in the forefront.”
This time, the island-wide journey will progress from Colombo district, focusing the hard-hit urban living within and around, moving to suburban and rural in a strategic sequence over the designated period.
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