Acknowledgement

We wish to thank all our donors for their generous help to the Pahansila Scholarship Project during the first half of the year 2008. We are truly grateful for all your contributions which make this project a reality.

Special thanks go to our financial administrators, Mr. H.L.N. Perera and Ms. Niroshini Vithana, and all our local supervisors in Sri Lanka for their hard work and dedication.

We sincerely thank Mr. Athula Karunatilake, Pahansila Project Coordinator in Sri Lanka, for his dedicated work in helping the Pahansila Committees to communicate with students to get progress reports on time.

We are grateful to Mr. Nadun Senevirathne and Mr. Sanjaya Amarathunge of Toronto chapter for their help in web/e-mail services, and to the PGCC in general, for all the help and advice given. Our appreciation also go to those who helped in transferring funds to our Sri Lankan accounts and for transferring Pahansila documents between USA and Sri Lanka.

We welcome you to contact us if you would like to join us in contributing to Pahansila. You can help by becoming a donor, finding needy students, and also by locating local supervisors who can contribute their time to work with us on this project.

We hope that this biannual report satisfactorily documents the progress of the project during the first half of 2008. If you wish to obtain a personal copy of this report on CD, please contact any of the Pahansila Coordinating Committee.

We look forward to another successful year!

Pahansila Coordinating Committee