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Ceylinco Life’s seminars benefit more than 1,800 Year 5 Scholarship hopefuls

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Ceylinco Life has funded seven seminars this year that have benefitted more than 1,800 students from different areas of Sri Lanka who are currently preparing for the Year 5 Scholarship Examination to be held in December.

 

The seminars took place in Aralaganvila, Galenbidunuwewa, Kantale, Kiribathgoda, Kurunegala, Matale and Nattandiya. The Company said it will conduct three more seminars before the date of the examination.

 

These programmes were delivered by a well-known teaching instructor who specialises in conducting practice sessions for the Year 5 Scholarship examination with past papers and model question papers.

 

“Education has always been a priority area in Ceylinco Life’s community support programmes,” the Company’s Assistant General Manager/Deputy Head of Marketing Mr Dhiranjan Canagasabey commented. “The youngest segment rewarded by our Pranama scholarships programme comprises of students that excelled at the Year 5 scholarships. Besides the scholarships programme, Ceylinco Life also builds and donates classrooms for needy schools. The seminar programme complements these activities.”

 

Ceylinco Life has been organising similar programmes for scholarship students since 2010 and has completed over 100 seminars that were attended by more than 30,000 students over the years. When covid-related social distancing regulations were in place, these programmes were delivered virtually via Zoom, the Company said.

 

Ceylinco Life also presents Pranama Scholarships programme which provide financial support to policyholders’ children who achieve the best results in their respective districts at the Year 5 Scholarship examination, the GCE Ordinary Level and the GCE Advanced Level as well as to those who excel at the national level in sports, invention, drama, cultural activities, or display other special skills. Among those recognised at the latest edition of the programme were 28 students who excelled at the 2021 Year 5 Scholarship examination who each received Rs 120,000, payable in instalments over five years.

 

Adjudged the ‘Most Valuable Life Insurance Brand in Sri Lanka’ by Brand Finance and certified a ‘Great Workplace’ in Sri Lanka for the third consecutive year in 2022, Ceylinco Life was declared Sri Lanka’s Service Brand of the Year by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) in 2021 and won the SLIM Kantar Peoples Award as the Most Popular Life Insurance Company in Sri Lanka for the 16th consecutive year, also in 2021. Ceylinco Life has been the country’s leading life insurer for more than half of the 34 years it has been in existence. Other accolades won in respect of 2021 include the ‘Most Popular Service Provider’ in Sri Lanka’s Life Insurance industry from LMD, the ‘Most Valuable Life Insurance Brand’ in Sri Lanka from Brand Finance, one of the 10 Most Admired Companies in Sri Lanka from the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka (ICCSL) in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and one of the 10 Best Workplaces in Sri Lanka’s Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector from Great Place to Work.

 

Ceylinco Life has close to a million lives covered by active policies and provides innovative life insurance solutions which offer protection while de-risking the goals and ambitions of the Company’s policyholders.