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Mitigation equipment worth a million rupees handed over to the public

Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

20/05/2015 – Kalutara, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s (SLRCS) Kalutara Branch handed over equipment worth a million rupees to the Walallawitia Divisional Secretariat as mitigation support for future disasters. The programme conducted under the Integrated Programme for Community Resilience of SLRCS Walallawita Divisional Secretariat was identified as a disaster prone area specially

Enhancing community response on Early Warning

Posted on Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

  18/01/2012 – Galle, Sri Lanka: According to Early Warning System audit reports, it is evident that the knowledge on risk reduction is very low among communities, those who are living in disaster prone areas in the Gin ganga basin. Considering the above fact, Galle Branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society commenced risk reduction activities to enhance community