Rose Sri Lanka: Sports for COmmunity Peace and Empowerment (SCOPE) - continues success

March, for the Rose Preschools it was a month for celebrations!

March 25th, 2011 | Author: richkalmunai

The Annual Sports Meet of all 14 of the Rose Preschools was held this month.

The students of Lower Kindergarten, Upper Kindergarten, teachers and parents have celebrated these events as a joyful function of the school year. For some, it has been for the second time but for some it was the first time in their life involving in this kind of activity .

The Organizing Committee of the Sports Meet had invited Officials, principals and community leaders from the area as distinguished guests with the participation of the public. Staffs of RCSL also participated in the event enthusiastically.

Each preschool was housed by a name (of someone from Rose Charities Canada to appreciate what they are doing for the effective functioning of Rose Charities Srilanka!!!!) .

First of all let’s start with the Sports Meet of the Rose Flagship Preschool, Domino’s Early Childhood Education Centre and English Language Institute .

This was held on Saturday, 12^th of March 2011 in the front yard of the school, Kalmunai.

Children eagerly participated in track and field events and fancy dress parades and won trophies and certificates. Parents involved actively and supported fully to make this event a successful one .

Let the pictures do the talking………….

Generous generous Cortes de Cima, Portugal: helping Japan tsunami victims

The need to help Japan

Posted by Carrie on Sunday March 13th, 2011 at 19:42

Anyone watching the horrendous images on the TV of the devastation wrought by the 11th March earthquake and tsunami cannot be left in doubt that Japan needs help. Cortes de Cima is responding by making a cash donation to help Japan, by way of our friends Rose Charities. We were not at all surprised to learn that Rose Charities are already responding to this latest crisis, by collecting donations to assist AMDA HQ relief teams, who since 12th March have been active in Japan helping with emergency health care. AMDA is one of Japans foremost emergency relief organizations.
We have on many occasions in the past, supported Rose Charities, both with donations in money and in wine for their charity fundraising events, like BeBare. The previous time was March 2010, when they were raising money in support of the Haitian earthquake victims. We know that money given to Rose Charities is money well spent.  It was founded by aid workers who were disillusioned by the waste and bureaucracy often seen in international aid, and 98% of donations goes directly to support their work in many parts of the world.

On a personal note, we have been fortunate to have visited Japan on a couple of occasions, and never failed to be fascinated with the country, culture and people. Many Japanese visitors often visit us too. The previous Japanese ambassador to Portugal, Mr. Hara Satoshi, a very keen fan of Portuguese wines, honored us with attending our annual Danish Christmas Wine tasting and lunch.  Japan has been one of our earliest export markets, and they continue as enthusiastic customers for both our wines and olive oil. Since the disaster, we have received relieving news from both our distributors Liquor Mountain and Harimaya, that they and their employees have personally escaped any harm. We extend our most heartfelt wishes to all of our Japanese friends in these difficult times.