Colombo International Container Terminals Limited (CICT) and Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) joined hands recently to donate dry rations to residents of Kandagasmankada in the Lunugamwehera Division of the Hambantota District.
Dubbed “Hope Village” after the hamlet was “adopted” for a flagship community development project funded by the China Merchants Foundation (CMF), Kandagasmankada is the highest-populated village in the Hambantota District and the largest contributor to the agricultural sector within the Lunugamwehera division.
Last Friday (23), representatives of the two China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort)-managed companies visited the township to present 362 families with hampers containing nearly six tonnes of food to the value of Rs. 2.7 million.
This “Hope Village” – the second of its kind – was launched in 2022 as a development model village to assist marginalised communities in the Hambantota District. It is a collaboration between CMF – the CSR arm of the China Merchant Group – which has allocated a budget of Rs. 60 million and the non-profit Nirmala Foundation. CICT and HIPG are the facilitators of the project.
CICT and HIPG gift essential foods to 362 families of ‘Hope Village’
30 Sep 2022
CICT and HIPG gift essential foods to 362 families of ‘Hope Village’
30 Sep 2022