People’s Bank celebrates 65th Independence Day with newborns on 4 February

Commemorating 65th National Independence Day, all People’s bank branches along with the head office have organised various Independence Day celebrations island-wide. The Independence Day celebration at the People’s Bank head office was held under the patronage of Chief Executive Officer/General Manager of People’s Bank, N. Vasantha Kumar. Singing the national anthem and hoisting the national flag was part of the proceedings at the occasion.   ‘Nidahase Upatha’, a program held by People’s Bank every year on Independence Day was also carried out this year. Under this concept,

The Chief Executive Officer/General Manager of People’s Bank, N. Vasantha Kumar hoisting the National Flag near People’s Bank head office and the General Manager offering a gift to a newborn baby at De Zoysa Maternity Hospital, Borella

People’s Bank has made arrangements to gift a ‘Isuru Udana’ Gift Certificate worth Rs. 500 to every baby born in the country between 1 and 7 February. This program was inaugurated by People’s Bank seven years ago with a vision to instil pride and honour towards the motherland as well as to encourage parents to have a vision for the future of their children. With this gift certificate, parents can open a Isuru Udana children’s savings account for the child at the nearest People’s Bank branch using the amount in the gift certificate and maintain the account there after. The speciality of this program is that the staff of People’s Bank visiting the hospitals and gifting the certificates to the newborns.  The main event of this program was held in the morning on 4 February at the De Zoysa Maternity Hospital in Colombo under the patronage of Chief Executive Officer/General Manager of People’s Bank, N. Vasantha Kumar. Isuru Udana gift certificates and other gifts were offered to parents of newborn babies at the occasion. The occasion was attended by the Deputy Directress of the Hospital, Dr. Dammika Jayalath together with staff of the hospital and the corporate and executive management of People’s Bank together with the staff.

Furthermore, staff members of other People’s Bank branches island-wide visited their local hospitals with Isuru Udana gift certificates and other gifts for newborn babies.

Handing over of the refurbished maternity wards No. 2 and 5 of Borella De Zoysa Maternity Hospital, funded by People’s Bank was also taken place at the occasion. Renovators including repainting of wards, curtaining, refurbishing of toilets and bathrooms with new equipment were carried under this project.