Commercial Bank CSR Trust sets up IT lab for Hambantota school

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The CSR Trust of Commercial Bank of Ceylon has set up a fully-equipped computer laboratory at the Ranminitenna Primary School in Tissamaharamaya, Hambantota, continuing its nation-wide community initiative to improve IT education. With this donation, the Ranminitenna Primary School with 126 students becomes the 32nd school in Sri Lanka to receive a computer laboratory from the CSR Trust of Commercial Bank.

The bank contributes up to one per cent of its post-tax profits each year to the trust. During the last three months of 2011 alone, Commercial Bank set up 13 computer laboratories, many of them in rural schools, benefiting up to 7,000 students. Here, Commercial Bank Southern Regional Manager Chirath Manukulasuriya demonstrates to a student of the Ranminitenna Primary School how to operate a computer. The other officials of the bank present are (from left) Tissamaharama Branch Manager Neville Dayarathna), Kataragama Branch Manager Amal Gunasekara and Tissamaharama Branch Junior Executive Officer Thivanka Tennakoon