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Building leadership skills
 
Carsons was involved in building leadership skills among university undergraduates through workshops and seminars organized by our Human Resources Division. Our partnership with AIESEC (an Association of Students Interested in Economics & Commerce), career guidance sessions & mentoring programmes conducted at a cross-section of local universities, were just a small effort on our part in developing the future generation of leaders of Sri Lanka.
Community Development & Support
The Lion Brewery annually donates school books for over one thousand deserving students living in the vicinity of the Brewery, their total year’s requirement. In addition, a scholarship program is in place for three students selected each year from the same community, based on their Ordinary Level results. This scholarship continues for the respective children selected to university until they graduate where finally a lump sum is gifted. Further the Brewery sponsor computer training courses for the village children and maintains at its cost the premises of the important places of worship and cemeteries in the vicinity of the brewery.
 
At our plantation in Indonesia we recognize that the fortunes of the village community and that of the plantation are closely linked. As much as the community depends on our plantation for their livelihood, we too depend on the community and as such we believe in uplifting the quality of life of the community.
We outsource most of our contract work, casual labour requirements, transportation and security services from the surrounding villages and ensure that any land claims put forward by the community are handled speedily and in a transparent manner. Further medical and educational assistance is provided to the community.
Environment consciousness
At the Lion Brewery effluent water from the factory is channelled through a state of the art treatment plant where it is processed without environmental air pollution, to levels higher than the minimum requirement in parameters set out by the authorities, prior to discharge to the waterways.
We have recognised that the welfare of the community goes beyond people, to protecting nature and the environment in and around our plantation. Our comprehensive environmental protection plan ensures that we make a conscious effort to preserve the natural surroundings and bio-diversity within our estates. The key areas addressed by the environmental protection plan are land reservation, careful use of chemicals and fertiliser and protection of the river that runs through the plantation which is a source of drinking water for the village. |
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Our Social Development Initiatives