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Lycamobile Commits £1 00 000 Grant to HRH Prince of Wales

Lycamobile commits its help to change the lives of disadvantaged people in Sri Lanka through a £1 000 000 grant to the British Asian trust.

In an effort to support those in need at grass root level, Lycamobile, the world’s largest international MVNO has pledged a grant of £1 000 000 to The British Asian Trust. The core focus of the grant is to provide support to children, widows and disabled people in Sri Lanka to improve their livelihood. The grant was announced by the President of The British Asian Trust, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Windsor Castle on February 13th 2012.

The charity work executed by The British Asian Trust has, to date, helped over 350,000 people across South Asia. In his speech, Prince Charles commented;

“In Sri Lanka we are involved in grass roots projects such as helping fishermen to purchase their boats to enable them to support themselves: it is a literal example of that old adage “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for life.” In his closing speech he commented “I was thrilled to learn that Lycamobile – a UK-based mobile phone provider – has committed £1 000 000 through their Foundation to be dispersed by my Trust to aid education and the building of livelihoods, and for that I am enormously grateful”.

The Sri Lanka project will be part of a tripartite partnership between Lycamobile, The British Asian Trust and The Gnanam Foundation. Subaskaran Allirajah, Chairman of Lycamobile and founder of The Gnanam foundation commented, “Lycamobile and The Gnanam Foundation are committed to providing long term support to people in need and to improve the livelihood of those less fortunate.
Our current partnership with The British Asian Trust has already been successful in the on-going Skills and Training Centre project, enabling youth from slums in Chennai, India to gain employable skills. I am delighted to extend this partnership to a significant project that will create sustainable livelihoods for the disadvantaged people of Sri Lanka.”

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