Ranaviru Fund has provided rehabilitation, Educational and medical aid worth over Rs. 4.5 Million for the benefit of the war veterans and their families. Providing over 570 Educational and Medical sponsorships for the children of killed/disabled soldiers by facilitating the scholarship programs of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Navy and Ranaviru Seva Authority is one of our major achievement.
We have reached the next level of our service providing by initiating two new projects to build 'disabled-friendly' washrooms and to provide state of the art fully flexible artificial limbs for the heroic soldiers who have suffered permanent disability while defending our Motherland.
Building Washrooms for Soldiers Suffered Permanent Disability
Currently there are number of soldiers being rehabilitated at different rehabilitation centres and are waiting to return home to rejoin their families. However, most of these valiant soldiers have suffered permanent disabilities and require disable friendly washroom facilities.
We have identified many such soldiers who are deprived of the opportunity of joining their families due to the lack of disabled friendly washroom facilities at their own homes. Our aim is to build as many as suitable washroom facilities for the benefit of these soldiers so they can return home.
Ranaviru Fund is pleased to announce the delivery of items to setup a dedicated resource centre for the brave soldiers with visual impairements. We learnt that there are increased number of soldiers who suffered eye injuries in the war against terrorism and subsequently lost complete sight or partial sight. We have inquired regarding the requirements of these valiant soldiers from the Rehabilitation Directorate of the Sri Lanka Army, based at Ranaviru Sevana, Ragama. As a result we were able to provide the necessary equipment to initiate this facility at the Ranaviru Sevana, Ragama.
Members from Ranaviru Fund officially handed these items to Major Dushyantha Yapa and other fellow officers and soldiersat the rehabilitation centre on 07th March 2010.
In phase-3 of the project we donated medical equipment worth over Rs 1.3 million to the Military Hospital. These medical equipment, which included a Defibrillator, a Pulse Oximeter and a Cardiac Patients Monitor, were formally handed over to the Director of Medical Corps, Brigadier Sanjeewa Munasinghe and Commanding Officer of the Military Hospital, Colonel Kamal Sumanapala, at the Military Hospital on 27-April-2009.
These medical equipment will be commissioned in the new operating theater of the Military Hospital.
Time Lines of the phase 3: From 22-Oct-2008 To 30-Jun-2009
Description
Amount
CR/DR
Total funds received in the UK
£11,922.82
CR
Total funds received in Sri Lanka
Rs.54,269.44
CR
Total Expenses paid for Medical Equipment from the UK Account
£8,044.87
DR
Paid to SLAF Seva Vanitha Unit *
£271.06
DR
Total Expenses
£8,315.93
DR
Balance - UK Account
£3,606.89
CR
Balance - SL Account
Rs. 54,269.44
CR
* Some sponsors paid the 1st installment of their Scholarships for the Ranaviru Children to the Ranaviru Fund bank account. Total of these amounts were paid to SLAF Seva Vanitha by a cheque.
With the success of ‘Rehabilitation Aid’ Phase-1, a group of friends from England volunteered to join hands with ‘Ranaviru Fund’ and commenced fund raising for the second phase. Within a period of three weeks we were able to raise £1748 and immediately purchased 150 Ultra Cushion Gel Liners and 15 talking watches. All the items were handed over to the Ranaviru Sevana during September 2008. Following is a brief summary. Please refer to the Phase 2 Project Summary Report for the complete details.
Time Lines of the project phase 2: From 24-Jun-2008 To 21-Oct-2008
We have provided 157 socket gel liners to Ranaviru Sevana under phase-1 of the project. Fundraising started on 05-May-2008 and the gel socks were handed over to the Ranaviiru Sevana on 23 June 2008 at a simple ceremony to mark the occasion. Following is a brief summary. Please refer to the Phase 1 Project Summary Report for the complete details.
Time Lines of the project phase 1: From 03-May-2008 To 23-Jun-2008
Description
Amount
CR/DR
Total funds received
£2,288.00
CR
157 Gel Socks
£1,758.00
DR
Fruit boxes/Pirikara/Transport etc for the donation ceremony
