On December 26, 2004, a devastating tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean ravaged the shores of Sri Lanka.  Waking up to the images of the devastation, Sanjay Daluvoy, Deep Gulasekaram, and Kanishka Ratnayaka were moved to take action.  Best friends from their time at Brown University, the trio planned a trip to go to Sri Lanka in 2005. 

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World Children’s Initiative (WCI) is one of the partners working with Operation Smile to advance Operation Smile’s Global Essential Surgery (GES) project currently taking place in Madagascar and two other countries. Operation Smile’s experience in safe surgical delivery for cleft care offers the opportunity to conceptualize, pilot, document and measure the impact and potential replicability of innovative approaches to improving surgical systems at the district level.

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In their initial meeting, Dr. Kanishka Ratnayaka could tell that Dr. Sulaiman Lubega was a skilled, intelligent hard worker, and he was committed to the children of Uganda.  That was the foundation for Dr. Ratnayaka making the decision that World Children’s Initiative (WCI) should invest in Dr. Lubega and the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) . 

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Dr. Shanta Ratnayaka, a professor of religious studies at the University of Georgia, dedicated husband and father, and humble humanitarian.  The Shanta Education Fund honors the late Dr. Ratnayaka’s dedication to issues of educational access, by providing scholarships and curricular programs for promising students from economically marginalized circumstances. 

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The Terry King Traveling Scholarship Award is awarded to an interventionalist from a country with an evolving congenital cardiac program to attend the meeting to provide an opportunity to share ideas, techniques and knowledge to developing programs. Dr. Lubega Sulaiman was selected as this year’s 2018 Terry King Traveling Scholarship Award. 

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