Female empowerment

Weaving Empowerment into Communities

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That is empowerment… To reinforce someone with the skill set to earn their own means. The MJF Chari...

Pitch to Pitch

We’re in the middle of a unique sequence of events, built around Sri Lanka’s – and Dilmah’s – longstanding friendship with New Zealand. It’s called Pitch to Pitch, and at the heart of the entire progr...

Kindness at the Heart of our Business

If you are familiar with the Dilmah brand, it is likely you would have heard the phrase, Business is a matter of human service. They were the words of our beloved late Founder Merrill J. Fernando, and...

Count Her In- Women’s Day Program to Empower Female Micro and Small Entrepreneurs

At Dilmah, we believe in supporting women not just for a day, but for as long as we can. That’s why this International Women’s Day we initiated the #CountHerIn program, designed to empower aspiring wo...

Women’s Development Programme

Curated to empower and challenge stereotypes, the Women’s Development Program (WDP) provides marginalized women and young girls with skill development and entrepreneurship training to break thro...