About Us

In the first two decades since its founding, SANASA focused mainly on research and community studies, institutional management and skills development. This required a concerted effort to impart the required knowledge, skills and research through a single institution. In order to fulfill this need, SANASA Education and Research institute was established in 1986. It was housed in “Werake Walawwa” at Karandupana,Kegalle. The cooperative institutions, both local and international, assisted this institution by providing financial assistance as well as resource persons. This institution carried out research on community development and conducted training programmes on development of Leadership, Management skills and Institutional management. More than 56,000 individuals were trained in this institution.

The SANASA movement felt the need of a strong and recognized institution to achieve its educational goals. As a result, the SANASA Campus Ltd, which is a limited liability company was incorporated in 2003.It was registered under the Companies Act No.17 of 1982 and re-registered under the Companies Act no.07 of 2007. The shareholders of the company were SANASA Federation, SANASA  District Unions, Primary Societies, SANASA Insurance Company Ltd, SANASA Producer Consumer Alliance Ltd, and individuals.

Initially, the courses offered at the SANASA campus included three diploma courses in Banking, Insurance and Co-operatives, several certificate courses, in-house training programs and a number of community centered short-term educational programs. This institution was the nucleus of the present SANASA Campus, which was granted degree awarding status by the Ministry of Higher Education in accordance with the Gazette Extraordinary 1846/18 of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka dated 21^st, January 2014.