We are proud to announce that our Company, under its CSR theme “WE CARE” donated the 3rd Ambulance to the Medirigiriya Base Hospital in the Polonnaruwa District last week.

It was formally handed over by His Excellency President Maithripala Sirisena and Mr. Shyam Bohra MD Lanka IOC to Dr Pramitha Ratnayake Provincial Director of Health Services, Medirigiriya, at the Presidential Secretariat Colombo on Friday, 22nd of April.2016.

Mr. Shyam Bohra (MD, Lanka IOC) warmly welcomes Mr. Chandima Weerakkody Honorable Minister for Petroleum Resources Development and Mr. Faiszer Musthapha Honorable Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils to the Lanka IOC “English for Young Learners” certificate awarding ceremony.

Mr. Chandima Weerakkody Honorable Minister for Petroleum Resources Development and Mr. Faiszer Musthapha Honorable Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils in presence of Mr. Shyam Bohra MD Lanka IOC and other Lanka IOC officials participated in the concluding ceremony of the highly successful “English for Young Learners” project. This project was held in collaboration with Faizer Muszthapha Foundation and Cosmopolitan Learning Academy at the Tower hall Theatre Maradana recently. The program was a huge Success.

Lanka IOC initiated English classes for underprivileged children in collaboration with selected school authorities, the Cosmopolitan Learning Academy and the Faizer Muszthapha Foundation, a non-profit organisation formed by Honorable Minister Faiszer Musthapha. The Foundation’s involvement is in identifying suitable schools, while the schools Principals identify suitable children and ensures that children maintain a 100% attendance rate at the classes. The Cosmopolitan Learning Academy provides specially trained English teachers to conduct the classes. Lanka IOC funds the teachers and provides all learning materials for the children including text books, stationary and school bags. During the current financial year about 1,500 children between the ages of 6 to 15 years from underprivileged localities in the Colombo District attended the 6 to 8 month English training program which was concluded with a huge Success.

The Company acknowledging its responsibility towards the society and has in addition conducted several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives under its theme ‘WE CARE’ In addition to a series of welfare programs including assistance for elders’ homes, renovation of healthcare centre, donation of ambulances, wheelchairs, and free health camps at diverse locations in Sri Lanka.

Lanka IOC believes that education can alleviate poverty. English education is rapidly becoming important for employment and higher education in Sri Lanka. However, English teaching facilities, particularly in public schools located in underserved communities, are limited. Therefore, children from such communities face a disadvantage in accessing English education.

Mr. Shyam Bohra (MD, Lanka IOC), addressing the gathering during the Award Ceremony.

“MD Lanka IOC; Mr. Shyam Bohra in his statement conveyed that “We believe that the children here today are the leaders of tomorrow and as a good corporate citizen, it is our responsibility to do our best to produce good, educated citizens so as to enhance the development of the country. English is spoken widely in the world and the best way to empower these children is to teach them the skills of the English language in a methodical manner. The happiness we have got from these projects can never be measured in monetary terms. Our reward is the deep seated satisfaction we get by seeing these children excel in competitions, present themselves and perform with great confidence and ease, all in the English language.”

Mr. Chandima Weerakkody Honorable Minister for Petroleum Resources Development,
Venerable Clergy in presence of Mr. D. Srivastava(Senior Vice President Lanka IOC)
and other Lanka IOC officials at the inauguration of the Health screening camp
organised by Lanka IOC PLC.

Lanka IOC PLC, acknowledging its responsibility towards the society conducted several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives under its theme ‘WE CARE’ with several noble programs. In addition to a series of welfare programs including assistance for elders’ homes, renovation of healthcare centre, donation of ambulances, wheelchairs and English education for underprivileged children, Lanka IOC also organised free health camps at different locations all over the Country.

In the recent past, Lanka IOC organised health camps at Katugasthota, Ratnapura, Negombo, Dematagoda, Badulla, Vavuniya, Akurana and has now organised yet another “Free Health Screening Camp” in association with Minister Chandima Weerakkody at the Eliketiya Bimbaramaya Temple in Ahangama – Galle District. The programme began with a religious ceremony with a vow to ensure many more health screening and treatment camps for the entire Sri Lankan community and this was inaugurated by Minister Chandima Weerakkody who is the Minister for Petroleum Resources Development.

Minister Chandima Weerakkody commended Lanka IOC for the initiatives taken through the ‘WE CARE’ projects facilitated by the Company and urged that many more CSR programs needs to be conducted for the community of Sri Lanka. This initiative received a remarkable response and appreciation from all those who patronized the ‘Free Health Screening Camp’. A total of 675 people were screened at the event, in which 477 opted for an eye check-up and 198 underwent general health check-up. Amongst those who availed themselves for the check-up, 424 were recommended for bifocal spectacles whilst 11 were recommended for cataract surgeries – all treatments are provided free of charge by Lanka IOC. In the last one year more than 4200 people have undergone such health check-ups in various camps organised by Lanka IOC.

Some of the participants at the Lanka IOC Free Health Screening Camp held on the 27th
of March 2016.

This medical camp solicited the experience of a team of 14 medical experts from “HelpAge Sri Lanka” including 02 doctors, a nurse, a pharmacist, 02 optometrists and support staff to provide a professional service to the patients. For ensuring proper diagnosis, sophisticated medical equipments were used to screen patients for diabetes, blood pressure, vision and other diseases. Wherever critical illness was diagnosed, the patients were referred to hospitals for further investigation and treatment.

MD Lanka IOC; Mr. Shyam Bohra conveyed that at Lanka IOC we believe public health is an aspect of national wealth through the creation of productive populations who have the mental and physical capacities to contribute to national development goals. Therefore, the Company supports many public health projects every year across the island, targeting underprivileged communities regardless of demographic difference.

More free medical camps are to be scheduled by Lanka IOC during the next financial Year.

Minister of Post, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs, Minister M. H. A. Haleem, addressing the gathering during the Health screening camp organised by Lanka IOC PLC.

Lanka IOC PLC, acknowledging its responsibility towards the society conducted several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives under its theme ‘WE CARE’ with several noble programs. In addition to a series of welfare programs including assistance for elders’ homes, renovation of healthcare centre, donation of ambulances, wheelchairs and English education for underprivileged children, Lanka IOC also organised free health camps at different locations all over the Country.

In the recent past, Lanka IOC organised health camps at Katugasthota, Ratnapura, Negombo, Dematagoda, Badulla, Vavuniya and has now organised yet another “Free Health Screening Camp” at the Lanka IOC Fuel station M/S S.H.L Abdul Carder & Son, Matale Road, Akurana, Kandy District. The programme began with a religious ceremony with a vow to ensure health screening and treatment for maximum number of people in the country and was inaugurated by Minister M. H. A. Haleem who is the Minister for Post, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs,

Minister Haleem praised Lanka IOC for the initiatives taken through the ‘WE CARE’ projects facilitated by the Company. This initiative received a remarkable response and appreciation from all those who patronized the ‘Free Health Screening Camp’. A total of 949 people were screened at the event, in which 626 opted for an eye check-up and 323 underwent general health check-up. Amongst those who availed themselves for the check-up, 552 were recommended for bifocal spectacles whilst 69 were recommended for cataract surgeries – all treatments are provided free of charge by Lanka IOC. In the last one year more than 3500 people have undergone such health check-ups in various camps organised by Lanka IOC.

This medical camp solicited the experience of a team of 14 medical experts from “HelpAge Sri Lanka” including 05 doctors, a nurse, a pharmacist, 02 optometrists and support staff to provide a professional service to the patients. For ensuring proper diagnosis, sophisticated medical equipments were used to screen patients for diabetes, blood pressure, vision and other diseases. Wherever critical illness was diagnosed, the patients were referred to hospitals for further investigation and treatment.

The participants at the Lanka IOC Free Health Screening Camp held recently.

“MD Lanka IOC; Mr. Shyam Bohra conveyed that the Company, as a corporate policy, places emphasis on social responsibility and giving back to society. Our public welfare projects target the deprived and deserving, regardless of any demographic differences. During the current financial year, through the ‘WE CARE’ initiative, we sponsored free health care to underserved rural families in the vicinity of Lanka IOC fuel stations.”

One more free medical camp is scheduled in March 2016, followed by a series of such health camps in the next financial Year.

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The participants at the Lanka IOC Health Screening Camp held on the 22 Jan 2016.

Lanka IOC PLC, acknowledging its responsibility towards the society conducted several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives under its theme‘WE CARE’ with several noble programs. In addition to a series of welfare programs including assistance for elders’ homes, renovation of healthcare centre, donation of ambulances, wheelchairs and English education for underprivileged children, Lanka IOC also organised free health camps at different locations all over the Country.

In the recent past, Lanka IOC organised health camps at Katugasthota, Ratnapura, Negombo,
Dematagoda, Badulla and has now organised yet another “Free Health Screening Camp” at the
Lanka IOC Fuel station M/S R. M. Pulendran at Mannar junction, Vavuniya. This initiative received a tremendous response and appreciation from all those who patronized the ‘FreeHealth Screening Camp’. A total of 958 people were screened at the event, where 716 opted for an eye check-up and 242 underwent general health check-up. Amongst those who availed themselves for the check-up, 597 were recommended for bifocal spectacles whilst 117 were recommended for cataract surgeries – all treatments provided free of charge.

Doctors attending to the participants at the Lanka IOC Health Screening Camp held on the 22 Jan 2016.

This medical camp solicited the experience of a team of 14 medical experts from “HelpAge SriLanka” including 4 doctors, 2 nurses, a pharmacist, 2 optometrists and support staff to provide aprofessional service to the patients. For ensuring proper diagnosis, sophisticated medical equipment was used to screen patients for diabetes, blood pressure, vision and other diseases. Wherever critical illness was diagnosed, the patients were referred to hospitals for further investigation and treatment.

“We at Lanka IOC strive to use our energy and resources to benefit the community at large”, said Mr. Shyam Bohra, Managing Director, Lanka IOC PLC. “We are proud to be a socially responsible corporate entity and have organised series of social service projects under the theme ‘WE CARE’. We wish to cover all the districts of Sri Lanka with our Free Medical ServiceCamps, so that the benefit is shared with the entire community”

The next free medical camps of Lanka IOC are to be scheduled for the coming months of February and March 2016 respectively.

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Extracted from Daily Mirror

Lanka IOC PLC, under its theme ‘We Care’, conducts several corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes namely free health screening camps, assistance for elders’ homes, renovation of healthcare centre, donation of ambulance, wheelchairs and English education for underprivileged children.
As part of the CSR projects, a free health screening camp was held recently at the petrol shed on Passara Road, Badulla in coordination with HelpAge Sri Lanka providing health check-up, free spectacles and wherever necessary the patients were referred to specialized hospitals to cure their illness.
A total of 601 elders were screened at the event, where 485 underwent eye check-up and 116 underwent general health check-up. Out of the elders who were present, 438 elders were recommended for bifocal spectacles which were supplied to them as per their prescription the day and 17 elders were recommended for cataract surgeries – all treatment are provided free of charge.
The next free medical camp of Lanka IOC is scheduled in the third week of December at the LIOC petrol shed in Vavuniya.

Lanka IOC, under its CSR arm ‘WE CARE” recently donated an ambulance to the Lihiniyagama Hospital, in the Dehiathakandiya Division of the Ampara District.
It was formally handed over by President Maithripala Sirisena to the Regional Director of Health Services, Ampara, Dr. Senaka Talagala in the presence of the Prime Minister Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe and the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka His Excellency Y. K. Sinha at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
According to Dr. Talagala, the Dehiathakandiya area has been identified by the Ministry of Health as an area affected by Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). At present, around 350 new patients have been registered in this area. The Base Hospital at Dehiathakandiya currently provides treatment to patients suffering from CKD. However, considering the large number of patients reported in the adjoining Lihiniyagama area, a Primary Medical Care Unit has been established at the Lihiniyagama Hospital to provide relief to these new patients.
President Maithripala Sirisena appreciated and welcomed the donation of this ambulance especially since a large number of CKD patients were reported from the Dehiathakandiya Division in recent times. Regional Director of Health Services, Ampara, Dr. Senaka Talagala together with Dr. Tilak Rajapakse received the ambulance on behalf of the hospital.
Speaking at the handing over ceremony Managing Director, Lanka IOC Subodh Dakwale said, “Our CSR initiatives stem from this simple yet strong belief and regular initiatives are being taken by the company in this direction”.
The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka His Excellency Y. K. Sinha said that the Government of India and many Indian companies in Sri Lanka have been providing many services to the community especially in the health sector. “The donation of this ambulance by Lanka IOC PLC is one such activity and I believe that this will be of immense help to the affected community in that area”, he said.

He added that with the donation of modern facilities to the Glencairn Hospital in Dickoya, the hospital would commence OPD functions in the near future. The High Commissioner affirmed that the Government of India had many more health projects lined up for the people of Sri Lanka. Also present at the handing over ceremony were Independent Directors and Senior Officials of Lanka IOC and Government officials.

Lanka IOC PLC commemorated the 12th anniversary of it’s operations in Sri Lanka with their annual blood donation camp in association with the National Blood Bank on 29th August 2014. As in the previous years, this year too, 267 donors consisting of Lanka IOC employees, business associates and well-wishers came together at the LIOC Head office at the World Trade Centre in Colombo and also at the Trincomalee oil terminal to donate blood . The annual blood donation camp is part of the various CSR initiatives undertaken by Lanka IOC under the theme ‘We Care’.

Lanka IOC PLC, as a responsible corporate citizen, believes that Corporate Responsibility is not merely about philanthropic activities, making generous contributions to various charitable causes but about being accountable for your actions, to all your stake holders and operating in a way that ensures long term sustainability, which in turn ensures sustainable development of the Nation. Towards this, LIOC has initiated several projects such as the English for young learners project in Colombo district under the patronage of his excellency the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa, donation of libraries to two rural schools in Anuradhapura district by his excellency the President of Sri Lanka , a massive tree planting drive across the country under the ‘Go Green’ concept engaging the students, donation of wheel chairs to the elders home, donation of fully equipped ambulance to Provincial Director of Health Services , Trincomalee to name just a few.

Commenting on reaching yet another milestone, Subodh Dakwale, Managing Director of Lanka IOC PLC said “It is both with a sense of pride and satisfaction that we at Lanka IOC PLC look back at twelve successful years in Sri Lanka. During this period we have grown our operations exponentially and have made significant progress with the active co-operation of the Government and the people of Sri Lanka. It gives us a deep sense of humility and fulfillment to celebrate this important anniversary by giving back to society and thereby enriching the communities we work in.”

In view of the need to reduce the ever increasing gap between demand and supply of energy, Lanka IOC PLC as part of their CSR initiative conducted a Fuel Conservation Awareness Program amongst school students who are the future leaders of Sri Lanka. The objective of this initiative was to educate and create awareness among students of Grades 7 to 12 on the need for energy conservation by highlighting the importance of energy conservation and its use in our daily life, its scarcity and its impact on sustainability of global eco-system.

This initiative of Lanka IOC PLC provided students an opportunity to showcase their creative and critical thinking skills through an essay and arts competition amongst students from invited schools in Colombo. The art competition was open to students from Grades 7-9 and the essay competition was conducted amongst Grades 10-12at the Western Province Aesthetic Resort recently.

Commenting on this initiative Subodh Dakwale, Managing Director of Lanka IOC PLC said that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been the cornerstone of success right from the inception of our company which is enshrined in the Mission Statement “to help enrich the quality of life of the community and preserve ecological balance and heritage through a strong environment conscience” which succinctly portrays the commitment of LIOC.

Elaborating further Dakwale said ‘We at Lanka IOC have defined a set of core values for ourselves – Care, Innovation, Passion and Trust to guide us in all we do. We therefore, are aware of the need to work beyond financial considerations and put in that little extra to ensure that we are perceived not just as corporate behemoths that exist for profits, but as a wholesome entity created for the good of the society and for improving the quality of life of the communities we serve.’

The top three winners of the essay and art competition were awarded certificates and gift vouchers. A large number of students, parents, teachers and officials from Lanka IOC including Saurav Mitra, Senior Vice President (Finance), Rajanie Balakrishnan, Company Secretary were present at the awards ceremony. Speaking on the occasion Dhananjay Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Retail sales and HR stated that Lanka IOC was indeed delighted with the response and enthusiasm of both the students and teachers and thanked every one of them including the parents who sacrificed a weekend to make this event a great success.”

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Through an ongoing initiative in teaching English to children from under-privileged communities, Lanka IOC, Faiszer Mustapha Foundation and Cosmopolitan Learning Academy launched ‘English for Young Learners’ six month programme for 1500 students from 15 chosen Dhamma or Sunday Schools from the Colombo District under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Following the success of the programme last year at Trincomalee, Minister Faiszer Mustapha, who instigated the Foundation with the sole focus of alleviating the social setback that todays’ students tend to face when learning and conversing in English.

Lanka IOC had undertaken this project as their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and have realized that projects of this caliber are focused towards providing education to a child from a poor background would help in the child’s upliftment for a better future.

“Lanka IOC and the Faiszer Mustapha Foundation had been working together on bringing about this concept for Dhamma Schools in the Colombo District.

Today, with the ongoing global changes and advancements, this strategy for companies to embrace CSR is meaningful and through this concept, we will work to provide youth with the chance to be able to learn English and benefit from it,” Chairman, Faiszer Mustapha Foundation, Minister Faiszer Mustapha said.

After the programme in Trincomalee, the Foundation noticed that this change should be brought upon to the Colombo District as well, especially after ruling out the plight of English language results from lesser known schools in the district.

To bridge this gap between learning the language as a subject at school, needed to be filled.

All four skills; reading, writing, speaking and listening would be taught during the six months. “This is not just an average English teaching programme. The focus would be laid out on English language to be taught as a language. This is an unconventional, well-programmed study scheme conducted by the Cosmopolitan Learning Centre.

“We had already been in Jaffna, in collaboration with Lanka IOC. This concept includes quite an interactive approach to teaching and we do not utilize the conservative way of school teaching. The concept is Cosmopolitans own developed, tried and tested teaching method. We engage in special training for our teachers I the right teaching technique to be used for this programme,” Thilak Silva of Cosmopolitan Learning Centre said.

35 teachers from the Colombo District have already been assigned for this programme. Whilst learning at Dhamma Schools, the programme had been set up to be followed as an additional class. “My aim is to diminish that gap seen between the English and the Non-English classes in schools around the country. English is a very much needed tool in todays’ growing world,” Minister Mustapha acknowledged.

Students will be allocated to segmented classes after undergoing a test that would mark them depending on their English knowledge and ability.

IOC sees this opportunity on a long term outlook and pledged their continuous support in bringing change to help in the education of children in the country.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the Chief Guest at the event.