On May 6th, 2024, we honoured the birthday of our beloved late Dilmah Founder, Merrill J. Fernando, with the commemoration of the first-ever “Kindness Day – In Memory of Merrill J. Fernando”. This annual program will pay tribute to his philosophy of kindness towards people and nature.
To mark this occasion, the staff of Dilmah Sri Lanka, including employees from Kahawatte Plantations, Dilmah Conservation, MJF Foundation, and Resplendent Ceylon, devoted the latter half of their work day to voluntary programs conducted nationwide.
This is what our Dilmah family did!
More than 100 of us volunteered across 12 locations in Sri Lanka. We spent time with the elderly, renovated and cleaned community schools and homes, organised a delightful afternoon for young patients at Suwa Arana – a Place for Healing, and assisted the elderly in cultivating their home gardens. In addition, over 1550 ration packs of food items were distributed throughout the island from Pallansena; the birthplace of our Founder, to Peliyagoda, Kalkudah, Weligama, Jaffna, Moratuwa and more!
