The Finance Co. PLC and SLRCS open Rataviru Service Centre at SLBFE
Monday, 15 July 2013 00:00
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Everyday Sri Lankans migrate abroad for employment to realise their dreams for a better future for themselves and their loved ones. It is because of this fact that the Sri Lankan Government has seen it fit to approve the ‘Rataviru Rekawarana Sewa’ program to encourage migrant workers to benefit from a livelihood-oriented earnings scheme. This programme allows the migrant workers to commence remitting their earnings to finance livelihood means which will generate income streams back home.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign employment, the Sri Lanka Red Cross and The Finance Company PLC was signed at Temple Trees on 10 June, 2013 presided over by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, ushering a new chapter for the protection, welfare and prosperity of migrant workers and their families in Sri Lanka.
In order to provide an efficient service to migrant workers, a new Rataviruwo Service Centre was ceremonially declared open by Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Dilan Perera on 25 June at the SLFBE office in Battaramulla. Many more service centres are scheduled to be opened in other parts of the island in locations where migrant workers are trained or where they come to transact business with SLBFE, in order to provide greater ease of access to services of the programme in the near future.
Thereby migrant workers will have the opportunity to obtain important information on how they would be able to plan financing their livelihood needs even before leaving for employment.
Through the new centre the migrant workers are also made aware of the services available to them through the global network of Red Cross Societies. They become aware of how to seek assistance of the Red Cross in instances of distress and natural calamities. Through the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society in the country of domicile the migrant workers will be able to restore links with their families in Sri Lanka. Migrant workers will be trained in first aid to add value to their services.
The Finance Company PLC is the pioneer financial organisation which is the first finance company to be registered in the country with over seven decades of trusted business experience. The company will play the essential role in presenting a range of financial solutions tailor-made to uplift the livelihood of the migrant worker segment and their dependants. The company with its 60 branches island wide and its strong communal binds nurtured over decades of close business relationships are ideally suited to take the programme to the doorstep of the migrant worker.
