The Sri Lanka Leukaemia Foundation (UK) held its 16th Anniversary Fund Raising Dinner dance at the Thistle Hotel, London Heathrow, UK. The event was fully booked and the brilliant UK-based Sri Lankan band Exceed entertained the crowd. There was a special guest appearance by music legend Mr Sohan Weerasinghe.
The charity was founded in 2008 to aid  leukaemia patient care in Sri Lanka. Over the years the Sri Lanka Leukaemia Foundation has donated more than £140,000 worth of medical equipment and urgently needed cancer medicines to the Apeksha Hospital (National Cancer Institute) in Maharagama, Sri Lanka. The most recent donation was an Argon Electrosurgery machine at a cost of £16,000. The Foundation also stepped in to donate urgently needed medicines to the Apeksha Hospital in 2022.
The SLLF is headed by Mrs Sirini Nizar (President) and Dr Narada Wijayatilake (Secretary and Past-President) while the The 2023 fund raising dance committee was headed by Past-President Nihal Perera.