Local community

       Ranweli has been able to establish a symbiotic relationship with the local village through direct and indirect benefits accruing to the community. Use of primary building material, skilled and semi-skilled labour, purchase of provisions, and direct and indirect employment is provided by Ranweli to the local community.  Ranweli also purchases artefacts and other arts and crafts to encourage the continuance of the dying rural artistic traditions by providing a market for them.
       In July 2004, Ranweli received a €500 grant from Ecoclub [The Ecoclub Project], to create an organic vegetable plot and greenhouse in a nearby girls school. It is hoped that this experience can lead the community to initiate home gardens to achieve self-sufficiency in organic vegetables, as well as raising environmental awareness in the students, parents, and the community.
       Ranweli believes that the degradation of the environment – the vital resource base of tourism – can be protected if the younger generation is actively involved in the protection of our natural and cultural resources.

Sri Lankan community

       Company Directors and Officers, through their association in various social, cultural, academic and professional pursuits, fulfill their obligations to society and lobby the provincial and central governmental authorities wherever possible to introduce environmentally friendly and sustainable tourism principles in policy making.
       Mr. Chandra de Silva, Director/CEO is the Founder President of the Eco tourism Society of Sri Lanka (ESSL) formed in 1999. He was also invited as a visiting Lecturer in Eco tourism for the Special BSc Degree program in Forestry and Environment by the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, a prestigious institution of higher learning in Sri Lanka. Mr. de Silva is also a member of the Board of Directors of The International Eco tourism Society [TIES] Washington D.C. and a fellow of The Royal Geographical Society of United Kingdom.