Corporate Social Responsibility

Jetwing Lighthouse

In 2005, Lighthouse Hotel & Spa was awarded the PATA Gold Award 2005 in the field of Education and Training – Educational Programme for their project A Taxi Service Through The Community. This project involved the training and grooming of 45 youth in the immediate surrounding to provide a professional taxi service to hotel guess. To achieve this, a series of training classes, field visits to places of interest etc. were carried out over a year. This ensured that these youth were guided from being hangers on of the community, to useful economic contributors.

• Wherever possible, purchases are made from area suppliers. For example, all cane baskets used by the housekeeping and kitchen departments are brought locally.
• Lighthouse Hotel & Spa shops do not carry any goods that can be purchased in local shops to avoid competition with local businesses.
• Financial assistance is given to area schools to assist with educational programmes. The Chef and his staff carry out training programmes in Home Economics for students from local schools.
• A donation of a trishaw was made to an Elders’ Home in Tangalle.
• Lighthouse Hotel & Spa supports the Shylamadhayamaya Buddhist Temple by helping in its refurbishment, and has helped raised funds to build a shelter for a statue of the Lord Buddha that was donated by the people of Thailand to this temple. It has also donated funds to build a library in the temple premises that will feature books on all religions. The associates of Lighthouse also donated the pinnacle for the temple.
• After the Tsunami of December 2004, Jetwing initiated the “Jetwing Relief Fund”, a fund aimed initially at collecting financial donations from well wishers and other business partners to rebuild the lives, livelihoods and homes of those affected by the Tsunami of December 2004.
• Lighthouse Hotel & Spa, has built or purchased new homes for a) 12 associates who lost their homes, b) two families opposite the hotel who not only lost their homes but also their breadwinner, and c) 12 additional houses on request. In addition, it has upgraded and refurbished all facilities of a children’s orphanage nearby run by the Young Men’s Buddhist Association. Funds have also been donated for purchasing basic household amenities and restarting livelihoods and small businesses.
• Conservation Education & Biodiversity Conservation
  
  
• The hotel has two resident naturalists, who interact with guests and staff and create awareness about the environment.
• Nature tours, promoting biodiversity conservation are a prominent feature of the services provided...
• Naturalists visit schools to conduct environmental awareness programmes.
• Naturalists work support and guide local environmental NGOs.
• All members of staff have been and are given in house and external training on biodiversity conservation and environmental management.
• Jetwing Lighthouse, like all other Jetwing Hotels, supports conservation activities by providing board and lodging for researchers, students and academics.