by Danesh Edirisooriya | Nov 15, 2016 | Helping Hospitals, Projects
We are pleased to inform you that The DOT Charitable Foundation has donated LKR 775,000.00 worth infant incubator (JW Medical- CHS-I1000) to the Paediatric Unit of Puttalam Base Hospital. The incubator was handed over on Friday the 15th of November 2016 to the team headed by Consultant Paediatrician Dr Dammika Dissanayaka.
Mr Suneth Bandara Manager of Commercial Credit, Puttalam handed over the incubator to the hospital on behalf of The DOT Charitable Foundation.
This donation was possible from our Ladies Spring Night held on 17th September at Cherrybrook Community Centre and through your generous donations.
The Puttalam Base Hospital is the main hospital in Puttalam District of North Western Province. It has an Obstetric Unit as well as a Paediatric Unit including a Neonatal Unit. It services for nearly 7000 deliveries per annum and around 30% of the babies are prematurely born. Currently the hospital is functioning with only 2 working incubators in the Neonatal Unit. Therefore, the hospital was in urgent need of an infant incubator.
We decided to facilitate this urgent donation after the below news item came to our attention.
20th August 2016 from the Hiru News
http://www.hirunews.lk/141049/couple-blames-puttalam-hospital-for-their-newborns-deaths
Thank you all for your great generosity and hard work, as without you this would not have been possible.
by Danesh Edirisooriya | Sep 7, 2016 | Fundraising Events
The 4th annual raffle draw fundraising event of The DOT Charitable Foundation was held on Saturday the 26th March 2016 at Don Moor Community centre with the patronage of donors, supporters and well-wishers in Sydney.
The event commenced with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp by children.
Special thanks go to our talented young artists “The Pulse” band members, Thisal and the team. Thank you so much for your dedication and commitment. It was a wonderful show in support of sick children in Sri Lanka and gave us a memorable evening.
Thanks to our talented artists for the wonderful evening. There were many volunteers to prepare food, arrange the venue, transport, photography, MC, Tickets sales and many other behind the stage support. The DOT Charitable Foundation wishes to convey their sincerest gratitude to all those who attended and enjoyed the evening with us.
Hope you had enjoyed the evening. Many thanks to everyone for your kind hearted support.
Our thanks also go to our sponsors and media partners, Vintage Tea, MASS, Vidura Media, Lanka Cube, OZ Lanka and E Lanka.
The Foundation with the help of generous well-wishers will continue to provide financial and moral support to sick children and young adults from none affluent backgrounds in Sri Lanka.
Funds raised will be used to donate a monitor to Padavia hospital, provide free early childhood education to children in Lunugamvehera “Sigithi pera pasala” and individually help sick children on their medical expenses.
We are looking forward to another exciting fundraising event in September 2016.
The highlight of the evening was the raffle draw and we wish to congratulate the following winners:
1ts prize (No 0164) R De Silva
2nd prize (No 0312) C Rupasinghe
3rd prize (No 0511) C Candappa
4th prize (No 1194) W Welangoda
5th prize (No 0919) M Fernando
6th prize (No 0759) N Samaraweera
7th prize (No 0192) Keshani
8th prize (No 0627) R. Gunasekera
9th prize (No 0268) D. Delgoda
10th prize (No 1246) U Galhena
Consolation prize winners are:
(No 1251) A Dassanayaka
(No 1191) M Welangoda
(No 0893) T Fernando
(No 1074) Oshadi
(No 0758) N.Samaraweera
(No 0631) C Weerabahu
(No 1017) T Fernando
(No 0087) L De Silva
(No 0457) A Karanarathna
(No 0450) S Kanathigoda
by Danesh Edirisooriya | Sep 7, 2016 | Fundraising Events
The DOT charity held their inaugural ladies spring charity night fund raiser on the 17th of September 2016 at the Cherrybrook community hall. Over 350 beautiful ladies graced the occasion adorned in vibrant and colourful sarees.
The Guest of Honour included Deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Ms Himalee Arunatilaka and Sydney Consul for Sri Lanka Ms Pramuditha Manusinghe.
The guests were kept entertained with fashion shows, Bollywood dance shows, cooking demonstration, DJ music and delicious food.
Proceeds from this night will be used to purchase an incubator to Puttlam hospital, and to build a toilet to a very poor family. Information of this project will be sent out to your once they are finalised.
A big thank you to Hornsby Council which offered the venue free of charge.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere appreciation and thanks to our generous donors and sponsors for all their support and encouragement.
Also our thanks to fashion show producers and choreographers, all the beautiful models, performers, their parents, members and their families, all our friend’s and well-wishers who dedicated their valuable time to make this event a success. We look forward in continuing to work with all good hearted people like you. Thank you so much for your support.
by Danesh Edirisooriya | Aug 7, 2016 | Helping Hospitals, Projects
Base Hospital Padaviya is full of highly dedicated staff but has limited facilities. The DOT Charitable Foundation donated a Multi Parameter Monitor worth of LKR 139,500.00 (AUD 1,320.00) with adult, paediatric and neonatal NIBP cuffs, adult, paediatric and neonatal spo2 probes and a set of ECG leads to the paediatric ward on the request of Dr Ruwan Dissanayaka, Consultant Paediatrician.
According to Dr Dissanayake currently hospital has only two multipara monitors for paediatric wards. Most of the patients in paediatric wards will get suboptimal care, when a critically ill child is transferred to the tertiary care with one of the monitors. Therefore, the new monitor donated by DOT is an invaluable asset to the Padaviya Base Hospital.
Our special thanks to MR Asoka Sirisena Manager, Commercial Credit, Padaviya who handed over the Monitor to hospital on behalf of The DOT Charitable Foundation.
The funds raised form 2016 raffle and through your generous donations we were able to successfully complete another project.
We sincerely appreciate your support to betterment of sick children in Sri Lanka.
by Danesh Edirisooriya | Jan 10, 2016 | “DOT” Preschool, Projects
Kandagamaskada Lunugamwehera, Thissamaharama
Tissamaharama is situated in rural south Sri Lanka 264 km from commercial capital of Colombo. Lunugamwehera is a government agricultural development project started 40 years ago in the surrounding areas of Lunigamvehera reservoir. In 2012 total population was 33,664 with 8,858 families. There were 2,997 children of under 4 years of age. In 2002, 33.5 of the population lived under poverty line.
“Singithi Pera Pasala” in Kudagama 2, Dakunuiwura, Lunugamwehera, Thisaramaharama, operate by Mrs D P M A Nilanthi who is a diploma holder of preschool education, is the principal teacher. She runs the school with an assistant teacher. There are about 35 children studding in the centre and all are from low income families. Each child is charged RS 500.00 per month. Due to under privilege status of the area most of the parents are unable to pay the fees. As a result some of the children are not attending the school continuously.
The DOT Charitable foundation intends to pay the school fees for all the children in the centre with the generous help of sponsors.
