We empower emerging entrepreneurs with guidance, training, and access to support systems that help ideas become sustainable enterprises. Our focus is on strengthening livelihoods, improving financial independence, and building long-term growth for less-privileged communities.
Oshani Warnapurage was a young undergraduate studying in the Agriculture faculty of the University of Peradeniya. She, along with her mother, ventured into the business of growing, packaging and selling mushrooms by starting a mushroom cultivation in the Year 2023 in the spare room of their residence in Ethgala, Gampola in the Kandy district.
Read MoreAsanka Kommalage who lives in Egoda Duwe, Kosgoda in Southern Sri Lanka had met IDEAS members initially during the aftermath of the 2004 December Tsunami. He had been severely affected by the disaster. His grocery shop was completely destroyed.
Read MoreIDEAS initiated a Bee keeping Development Project in March 2023, at the Inginimitiya Irrigation scheme in Puttalam district. The project is implemented by Infotechs-IDEAS with the active support of the Inginimitiya Irrigation Department staff.
Read MoreNayomi Ranaweera is an entrepreneur who has been engaged in producing pure kithul treacle and jaggery for the past 6 years. She runs a registered business called Natural Honey (Pvt) Limited in the Ukuwela area of Matale district. Nayomi sources pure kithul sap from kithul tree growers in and around the area, thereby supporting the livelihoods of nearly 150 such growers by providing them with an avenue for sale of their agricultural produce.
Read MoreS. Sanmugarajan living in Wanawasala area in Kelaniya, Colombo district is an entrepreneur who creates ornamental artificial Bonsai plants to cater to the interior décor needs of homes, offices, hotels and specific events and functions.
Read MoreNimali Sunethra Perera living in Ellakkala in the Gampaha district has been sewing ladies foundation garments as a small-scale entrepreneur for over a decade.
Read More‘Sameera Products’ has been a household name for ready-made spices including chillie powder, chillie pieces, pepper powder, raw & roasted curry powder and turmeric powder in the Puwakgaha Thotupola, Moratumulla area in Moratuwa.
Read MoreRanjith Prasanna Kumara (RPK) has been operating his business out of his home in Talawa, Anuradhapura since 2016. RPK grinds, packs and sells condiments and spices (chilli powder, chilli pieces, roasted and unroasted curry powders, turmeric, pepper, cloves, cardamom) under the label of ‘Ranjith Products’.
Read MoreMalkanthi Bandara of Katudeniya, Mathale has been running her own business of producing cloth bags, soft toys and ladies garments.
Read MoreShyaman Palliyaguruge is a skilled craftsman who repairs and manufactures furniture, specialising in sofas, sitting room furniture and various types of comfortable cushioned chairs and reclining arm chairs. His business is located in the Hindogama area of the Anuradhapura District.
Read MoreMilroy Weerasinghe from Kegalle is a versatile entrepreneur. He specializes in crafting Silver and gold plated jewellery.
Read MoreManjula Jayampathy has been an entrepreneur conducting an operation that converts bio waste, such as paddy/oats husks and saw dust, to briquettes.
Read MoreThis Anthurium plant nursery is owned and maintained by Mahinda Sarath Kumara in Pallegama, Kegalle.
Read MoreIn early 2018, Mr Bandu Vithanage (BV), a former public officer turned social activist who has promoted social mobilization/empowerment and mutual help activities in Kombala and Mayakaduwa, two adjacent villages in the Imaduwa Divisional Secretariat Divison, approached IDEAS with a request for financial assistance to improve and expand the local- level businesses of 9 small scale entrepreneurs in the two villages.
Read MoreVasanthi Gulasekharam, was a 24-year-old young lady entrepreneur who was setting up her own Hair and Beauty care Salon in a rented space in Havelock Road, Colombo 05. She benefitted from a generous grant cum loan from IDEAS in the Year 2017 to purchase much needed Salon equipment, accessories and beauty care products.
Read MoreY.G. Dayawathi of Uda Dumbara in the Kandy district is an entrepreneur, manufacturing handwoven cloth using the unique ‘Dumbara’ weaving patterns.
Read MoreWhen the Ranaviru Seva Authority of Sri Lanka submitted a project proposal in February 2003, IDEAS obliged by extending financial support for a bee keeping project that was implemented in the Ranavirugama, Wathupitiwela, Gampaha for the welfare of disabled soldiers, war widows and families living there.
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