Sampath Bank launched the extension of its Gasai Mamai Pubudu Pothai tree planting program with the introduction of a vegetable gardening program at the Zonal Education Office, Piliyandala recently.
The Bank first launched the tree planting program last year with the participation of schools in those areas where it had earlier undertaken its Wewata Jeewayak tank restoration program.
Pleased with the progress and positive outcomes of this program, the Bank launched this initiative - a vegetable gardening program with the participation of students, teachers and principals of schools in the Zonal Education Office, Piliyandala. The Bank plans to extend this program to 100 schools in Colombo and the suburbs.
The plan is to distribute ten types of vegetable seeds plus organic fertiliser and a set of cultivating tools per school, as per the request of the school or at the discretion of each school. Sampath Bank purchased the seeds from the Seed Planting Material Development Centre of the Department of Agriculture.
“Building upon the success of the tree planting program was a logical next step,” said Group Chief Human Resource Officer, Sampath Bank, Lalith Weragoda.