Omega Line Ltd, Sandalankawa, a leading export-oriented garment factory in Sri Lanka, engaged in a massive corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme branded as ‘Sahanodayata Dawasak’ investing over Rs.3 million. 

The company in a single day visited 34 children’s and elders’ homes in the Western and North Western Provinces to provide inmates with their requirements with entertainment.

The programme was spearheaded by Omega Line Ltd Director Felix A. Fernando. The company identified 24 children’s’ homes and 10 elders’ homes in the 50 kilometres vicinity in Sandalankawa and surveyed the requirements of those places prior to launching the programme. Omega Line employees volunteered to do the surveys and to provide labour for the CSR programme.
On requests made by the managements of selected children’s and elders’ homes, dry ration, sweets, clothing, school uniforms, bed sheets, stationery, school books, medicine, water filters, refrigerators, washing machines, mosquito nets, electric bulbs, serviettes, mattresses, shoes, reading material, toys, steel cupboards, cleaning material, gas cookers and cash were donated by Omega Line.
In addition, the Omega Line employees colour-washed the premises of these needy people, cleaned their gardens and washed their linen. Their active involvement signified the occasion. 
The Omega Line employees, comprising 2,500, as 34 teams engaged in this noble cause. They spent all-day-long with inmates of the respective children’s and elders’ homes and offered them with gifts bought from their own money. Omega Line provided lunch and tea for all the inmates. 
Fernando said, “The inmates of these children’s and elders’ homes have told donators often vanish soon after making their donations. Thus, we spent the whole day with them talking and having sing-song sessions, which were so touching.”
Omega Line Ltd Human Resources Manager Sampath Weerakoon said, “Even after the programme our employees have visited these children’s and elders’ homes during weekends to talk to inmates. This was the outcome we expected from ‘Sahanodayata Dawasak’ CSR programme as a socially responsible company.”

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Omega Line employees washing clothes of inmates of an elders’ home