Our Approach
Big Hearts Foundation is volunteer driven social services organization in Sri Lanka, who support rural and poor commiunities to uplift their life standards by designing and conducting need based projects to address specific needs which are unable to fullfilled by those rural and poor commiunities with the help of our humble donors and passionate volunteers.
Our Story
Our story started in 2010 with two volunteers, "Green Map Sri Lanka" our first team initiated to protect nature and educate people about protecting nature. We conduct two projects "Conserve Sripada" and "Coastal Cleanup" projects to clean the garbage and recycling.
"Blood needs" initiated in the year 2012 to help patients to find blood from donors and publicize the blood donation camp information to general public.
"අකුර" & "පුස්තකාලය" projects initiated in the year 2014 to support the education of poor students and re-build rural schools.
"Enable Differently Abled" project initiated in the year 2017 to support our fellow differently-abled citizens who need physical and emotional support.
"I Am Carbon Negative" project initiated in the year 2017 for Educating and promoting people about environment-friendly living through consuming low carbon emission products and services. "Thurusewana" & "IACN workshops" are the projects focus on reforestation and educating nation about carbon negative living.
Now we are backed by over 1000 passionate volunteers and Donors.
Meet Our Team
Management team behind the "Big Hearts Foundation"
Rohana Amarakoon
Founder & Chairman
Well known young social entrepreneur in Sri Lanka who founded Big Hearts, Blood Needs, Green Map Sri Lanka communities.
Also, Rohana working as Software Project Manager by profession and he is known as Public Speaker, IT Lecturer, Blogger, Photographer too.
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Nuwan Rohana
Deputy Chairman
Nuwan is a young social worker, who is the director and one of the key personal of Big Hearts Foundation and Blood Needs Sri Lanka.
Also, Nuwan working as Civil Engineer by profession and he is also well-known photographer too.
Delmi Jayatilake
Secretary
Delmi is a young social worker, who is the secretary and one of the key personal of අකුර and පුස්තකාලය Projects.
Also, Delmi working as Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer by profession and she is also well-known IT lecturer too.
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Sachith Dassanayaka
President
Sachith is a young social worker, who is the president and one of the key personal of Big Hearts Foundation and Green map Sri Lanka.
Also, Sachith working as UI/UX Engineer by profession and he is also active environmentalist too.
Meet Our Environmental Conservation Team
The management team behind the "Green Map Sri Lanka & I Am Carbon Negative" Projects
Chamila Kohona
Vice President - Environmental Conservation
Chamila is a young social worker, who was the project manager of "Conserve Sripada" project on year 2017/2018 and one of the key person who is now heading both "I Am Carbon Negative Team" and "Green map Sri Lanka Team".
Also, by profession Chamila working as telecommunication specialist at leading telecommunication company in SriLanka and he is also active environmentalist too.
Rahal Danthanarayana
Project Manager - Thurusewana Project (Reforestation)
Rahal is a young social worker, who was the project manager of "Thurusewana - Reforestation" project and one of the key person of "I Am Carbon Negative Team" and "Green map Sri Lanka Team".
Also, by profession Rahal working as Software Engineer at leading International software company in SriLanka and he is also active environmentalist too.
Prasanna Jayaweera
Project Manager - Green Map Sri Lanka Coastal Cleanup Project
Prasanna is a young social worker, who was the project manager of "Green Map Sri Lanka Coastal Cleanup" project and one of the key person "Green map Sri Lanka Team" and country manager of "World Cleanup Day - Sri Lanka".
Also, by profession Prasanna own the Travel & Tour Agency in SriLanka, who support the growth of tourism in Sri Lanka and he is an also active environmentalist too.
Pamod Samuditha
Project Manager - Conserve Sripada Project
Pamod is a young social worker, who is the Project Manager of "Conserve Sripada Garbage Cleanup" project and one of the key person of Green Map Sri Lanka Team and I am Carbon Negative Team.
Also, by profession Pamod working as Civil Engineer at reputed construction company in Sri Lanka and he is also an active social worker too.
Kethaki
Assistant Project Manager - Thurusewana Project (Reforestation)
Kethaki is a young social worker, who was the assistant project manager of "Thurusewana - Reforestation" project and one of the key person of "I Am Carbon Negative Team" and "Green map Sri Lanka Team".
Also, Kethaki is a pharmacology student who is still studying and she is also active environmentalist too.
Anuk Fernando
Assistant Project Manager - Green Map Sri Lanka Coastal Cleanup Project
Anuk is a young social worker, who was the assistant project manager of "Green Map Sri Lanka Coastal Cleanup" project and one of the key person "Green map Sri Lanka Team" and "I Am Carbon Negative Team"
Also, Anuk is still schooling at Wesley College Colombo and he is an also active environmentalist too.
Udara Kohona
Assistant Project Manager - Conserve Sripada Project
Udara is a young social worker, who is the assistant project manager of "Conserve Sripada Garbage Cleanup" project and one of the key person of Green Map Sri Lanka Team and I am Carbon Negative Team.
Also, by profession Udara is a Survey field assistant and he is also very active environmentalist too.
Meet Our Sustainable Education Team
The management team behind the "Akura & Pusthakalaya" Projects
Tharaka Nirmana
Vice President - Sustainable Education
Tharaka is a young social worker, who is the vice president of Sustainable Education of our organization and one of the key person of Big Hearts For Education to support "Akura" & "Pusthakalaya" projects.
Also, Tharaka working as Android and iOS Software Engineer by profession and he is also active environmentalist too.
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Menaka Jayasekara
Project Manager - Akura Project
Menaka is a young social worker, who is the project manager of "Akura" project and one of the key person in Big Hearts Sustainable Education Team to support rural schools and students to have a quality education.
Also, by profession, Menaka is working as a project officer a non-profit organization. youth social worker & traveler.
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Get in touch with us..
Big Hearts Foundation really want's YOUR support and donations to carry our social services programs to;
- Support education of poor students and rural schools.
- Donating books to libraries in rural villages and Universities.
- Protect natural resources to our future generations & encourage carbon negative living.
- Creating aggregator platform to blood and organ donations.
- Support our differently abled community through fulfilling their basic needs.
Please contact us for your donations and support.