Hesha Lucknie Perera
Manager End Child Poverty Knowledge Center and Regional Safeguarding Focal Point, End Child Poverty Initiative
About this speaker
Hesha Lucknie Perera is currently working as the Manager at the End Child Poverty Initiative at Arigatou International. She oversees the End Child Poverty Knowledge Centre based in Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka, and ensures action-oriented information gathering and dissemination between the field experience and End Child Poverty global interventions.
She is also the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) Sri Lanka Coordinator and leads Arigatou International’s SDGs Academy for Children - Model Classroom - which teaches children the Sustainable Development Goals and empowers them to act.
Before she joined Arigatou International, Hesha served as a Sociologist in one of the Government Ministries of Sri Lanka and a Senior Associate in Room to Read and World Vision Lanka.
Hesha Graduated in Sociology and completed her Masters in Regional Development and Planning. She is specialized in Children’s Education, Life Skills & Mentoring support for Children, and Social Research.