Lanka IOC donates generously towards TRAIL Walk crowdfunding initiative

Lanka IOC Plc, one of the country’s premier private oil companies, has taken its next Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) step by giving a generous donation towards the TRAIL Walk initiative which took place in October this year. 

The cheque for the generous sum was handed over to Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara by LIOC Managing Director Shyam Bohra. 

“We believe in providing support to crowdfunding initiatives such as the TRAIL Walk, which help to bring together communities and the general public, who participate in a truly worthy initiative,” said Bohra. 

The TRAIL Walk, which was the brainchild of founders Nathan Sivagananathan and Sarinda Unamboowe, is Sri Lanka’s largest crowdfunded charitable initiative. 

The aim of the walk by volunteers was to raise $ 5 million or about Rs. 735 million towards the construction of a new cancer unit at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle. TRAIL initially commenced in 2011 in the form of a walk which started from the southernmost part of the country and finished in the north in the course of 27 days, covering 670 km in total. 

Lanka IOC Plc is the subsidiary of IOCL, a Fortune 500 company. It is the only private oil company that operates over 199 retail petrol and diesel stations in Sri Lanka and has a very efficient lubricant marketing network. 

Its major facilities include an oil terminal in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’s largest petroleum storage facility, a 18,000 KL per annum capacity lubricant blending plant for the manufacture of Servo Brand lubricants and a state-of-the-art ISO 9001:2015 SLSI accredited fuel and lubricants testing laboratory in Trincomalee.