The Sustainable Education Foundation (SEF) is a volunteer driven not for profit organisation founded with the short term goal of making the Sri Lankan education system the most effective and most dynamic education system in the world with the help of a specialist global network of local and expat Sri Lakans. SEF’s long term goal is to disrupt and democratise the global education system where it is available for everyone, in doing so, the foundation contributes to the United Nations’ sustainable development goal of “Quality Education”

ScholarX is an exclusive 3-month program aimed at providing mentoring support to a selected pool of high potential undergraduate students based in Sri Lanka ideally by a Sri Lankan expat. ScholarX became our free premium mentoring program by Sri Lankans for Sri Lankans working towards creating a culture of knowledge and expertise sharing without the limitation of geographical borders. Just like the OneLive program our mentors were from Fortune500 companies and top Universities. We have paired over 200+ students and mentors with more than 2500+ mentoring hours logged in. Student Ambassadors program form are our student representation within the Universities in Sri Lanka. They act as our liaison, organising events to promote our programs with their fellow student communities. Our Student Ambassadors are then trained by a diverse group of industry experts over a 5 month free personal development program to equip them with high demand skills required by employers making them future ready by graduation, including time management, adaptability, collaboration and business communication. We have had 50+ student ambassadors in the past and in the 2019 cohort we have 20+ student ambassadors from majority of the Universities all around the country.

The program is overseen by the Executive Committee for the Sustainable Education Foundation and managed by the respective Program Owners of the ScholarX and Student Ambassador Programs. Both programs are run on zero budget and relies on the generosity of our volunteer network. Weekly formal meetings are held to assess progress of the program against set targets at the start of the program. Participants and Subject Matter Experts who volunteer as Mentors and Module Speakers are both provided opportunities to submit their feedback to identify what aspects of the program are most beneficial for the participants and also identify how we can improve the future delivery of the program. We publish the findings via blog posts and other social media networks to ensure transparency and also for knowledge sharing purposes for other grass roots organisations with similar interests.

Universities in Sri Lanka, expat Sri Lankan professionals in STEM industry, local grassroots volunteer organisations focused on promoting STEM education and careers.