Our story

Our Mission is to create a world in which every child is empowered to achieve more.

Since our humble beginnings in 2010 as a small family owned non-profit, we've witnessed incredible support from friends, family, and the community towards our mission. Together, we're aspiring to shape a world where every child will have equal access to opportunities, removing the limits of background and nurturing boundless potential.

We are currently focusing our efforts in South East Asia, particularly Sri Lanka. The foundation provides targeted support to disadvantaged children with access to education through scholarships, health and hygiene related initiatives, mentoring & supporting services to help them get through barriers to education.

“Help Others Achieve Their Dreams And You Will Achieve Yours.“
- Les Brown -

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We got started back in 2010

Back in 2010, we as a family started the Let Kids Fly Foundation with a simple goal to help out those children that are less fortunate. Over the years, we've seen the impact we were able to create through a number of projects to support children in need in Sri Lanka.
In 2019, we made it official by registering with the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission) to be able to scale our efforts & have others help and participate towards our mission.

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KALI WEERASEKERA

Company Secretary

VAJIRA WEERASEKERA

Director

VIRAN WEERASEKERA

Treasurer

YANIK WEERASEKERA

Director

What we do

We want to take a holistic approach for how we plan to help realise our vision. Our plan is to treat both the body and the mind through a series of projects and programs as we identify the children we can help through our work. We focus our efforts across these four areas.

Digital Connectivity and Skilling
Health and Hygiene
Access to Education
Entrepreneurship/ Careers/Mentoring

How our projects are funded

At present, we fund the projects through these funding sources:

Donations from our community of supporters.
Proceeds from the book Motivating Mavericks - The secret to high performing teams by Vajira Weerasekera.
The Run for Life Project 2021 Moon shot challenge contributed 100% of the donations to our mission.
Life of the Run book was published as a result of the Run for Life Project 2021 challenge. 100% of the profits from the book was donated to our mission .

Charity Registration

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Let Kids Fly is a registered charity with ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission) with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status allowing donations to be tax deductable in Australia. ABN: 79573876880

View the registration on ACNC.

The Let Kids Fly Foundation is also registered with the Benevity platform. This enables companies using Benevity platform to contribute to our cause through fundraising or matching programs, further supporting our efforts.

View the registration on Benevity.