As Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, Chandrani collaborated with the Australian High Commission and the Australian Human Rights Commission to promote women’s and children’s rights in Sri Lanka.
Chandrani Senaratna
Australia Awards alumna
Sri Lanka
To address the drought crisis, Dayani developed a new technology—approved by the Ministry of Agriculture—to cultivate sweet potato in home gardens. She received an award from the President of Sri Lanka for her contribution.
Dayani Pradeepika
Australia Awards alumna
Sri Lanka
Founder of Knowledge Mag and tech start-up Itechro, Dinuke’s passion for mentoring start-ups for success has helped him support various small-to-medium enterprises in Sri Lanka and globally.
Dinuke De Coonghe
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
Founder of tourism education company Go Ceilão, Amila has collaborated with Australian companies to promote travel and tourism between Australia and Sri Lanka. She organised ‘Everesting in Sri Lanka’, the first such event to be held in the country.
Amila W Gunawardana
Australia Awards alumna
Sri Lanka
Indraka has designed and delivered training for government officials tackling human trafficking, which resulted in improved living standards of safe houses and built staff capacity to adopt a ‘victim-centred approach’ for victims of human trafficking in Sri Lanka.
Indraka Ubeysekara
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
Poorna and Indumini introduced ‘13 Years of Certified Education’, a project through the Ministry of Education that provided 1400+ students with a chance to successfully complete their vocational education in Sri Lanka.
Poorna Kumari Perera & Indumini Darshika
Australia Awards alumnae
Sri Lanka
Kanishka trained more than 200 small-scale entrepreneurs from Sabaragamuwa working in the food and beverage and tourism/hospitality sectors, helping to make the province a major tourist attraction for revenue generation.
Kanishka Nishendra Jayatunga
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
Kusum initiated the Menstrual Hygiene Management program to improve health standards for girl children and help tackle the significant number of cervical cancer cases in Sri Lanka.
Kusum Athukorala
Australia Awards alumna
Sri Lanka
Lalith has initiated many tree replanting drives in sensitive catchment areas of Sri Lanka. As owner of a timber business, he has also adopted unique carpentry skills using recycled materials in order to reduce the need for logging.
Lalith Senevirathne
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
Mohamed has established collaborative research projects with Australian counterparts (University of Technology Sydney and ICE WaRM [International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management]) to address water and sanitation issues in Sri Lanka.
Mohamed Esham
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
As Directors at the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, Priyanka and Nadeeka have collaborated with the government and vocational training institutes to tackle labour shortages in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka.
Priyanka Samaraweera & Nadeeka Andrahennadi
Australia Awards alumnae
Sri Lanka
Aiming to develop sustainable waste management solutions, Randika collaborated with Australian and Sri Lankan universities to develop a capacity building educational program to support community-based waste recycling, improving Sri Lanka’s environmental health.
Randika Anjalie Jayasinghe
Australia Awards alumna
Sri Lanka
Rahula is an Australian-certified EcoGuide who co-founded Aarunya Vacations with a sister company in Australia. Aarunya Vacations is a travel facilitation service that promotes Sri Lanka as a tourism destination to international travellers.
Rahula Perera
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka
Mahinda introduced the first public-private partnership for the management of empty plastic agrochemical containers in Sri Lanka. His survey findings on non-degradable plastic containers and electrical equipment waste were included in the National Environmental Act.
Senarath Mahinda Werahera
Australia Awards alumnus
Sri Lanka