SL Red Cross Society hosts residential programme for Peradeniya University students

 SLRCS hosts a Knowledge and Experience Sharing Field Visit for the Agriculture Students of  University of Peradeniya (UoP) in response to the Ground Water Recharging for Disaster Preparedness Project
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), Sri Lanka’s largest humanitarian organisation, hosted a two-day residential programme for undergraduates from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya in Galgamuwa.  

The residential workshop was a knowledge and experience-sharing field visit organised as part of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Empress Shoken Fund-funded Ground Water Recharging for Disaster Preparedness Project, which is being executed by the Kurunegala Branch of SLRCS.

The programme commenced at the SLRCS Kurunegala Branch’s training hall with an introduction to the organisation, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and the Ground Water Recharging for Disaster Preparedness Project.  

In the initial discussion, the students were separated into three groups: agriculture engineering, soil and agriculture, and social science aspects. 

The students were instructed to gather information and uncover results with a preference for their chosen groups, and to submit their findings at the end of the residential workshop.