Exterminators wins international CSR excellence award

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Director Global Business & Franchising Deva Devanayagam receiving the award from Karl Tullett

The Exterminators Ltd., Sri Lanka’s premier environmental enhancement solutions provider, announced that the company was awarded the ‘International CSR Excellence Award’ at a glittering presentation ceremony that was held at Waldrof Hilton, London on 27 September. The company competed with over 500 nominations globally at the CSR Excellence Awards for 2021.

Since March 2020 Exterminators has disinfected 151 properties throughout Sri Lanka, free of charge. These properties include elders’ homes, children’s homes, police stations, schools, religious venues and public transport stations, etc. Since July 2020 salaries of Exterminators employees were increased by 10%-40% according to the performance and also donated five company motorbikes to the high-risk COVID-19 disinfection team and further donations were given for children’s education, employee higher studies and renovating homes.

As a result of this International CSR Excellence Award success, Exterminators has been invited to have their winning paper published in The Global Guide to CSR Excellence (the leading international work of reference on corporate social responsibility best practice) so that others around the world can follow their lead and learn from their achievement.

“We knew if we failed, we wouldn’t regret it, but we knew we would certainly regret doing nothing. As a social-enterprise, it is our moral obligation to help our community, our customers, our employees and their families when they needed us the most,” Founder/Managing Director Marlon Ferreira stated.

The Exterminators ‘High Risk COVID-19’ team with specialised disinfectors working from office and operations staff working from home, ventured into a brand-new industry named ‘Disinfection & Sanitation’. The services were provided countrywide even during curfew/lockdown periods to help the community to fight COVID-19 and help businesses to get back to business with hours providing 24x7 services.