Foreword

It is with great pleasure that we present to you the mid-year biannual report of 2008, which covers the progress and financial records of the Pahansila Scholarship Project of US West chapter for the period of January to June 30st 2008.

When compiling this report we faced numerous difficulties in obtaining the necessary documents from some students living in outstation areas. In spite of the best efforts of the committee and our volunteers in Sri Lanka, documents of some students were not received. However, every effort would be made to get these during next six months. In previous biannual reports we included scanned progress reports of each student. Due to the significant increase in the number of projects this task has become very time consuming. Further, we felt that donors would like to receive original documents from students. Therefore beginning 2007, we have changed the structure of the biannual report. Instead of including scanned documents in the report, the original documents would be mailed to the donors every six months. The letters we received for that period would be documented in each profile page of the report. Any important information from the letters would also be mentioned there.

We invite you to visit the Pahansila website at http://www.pahansila.org. You can learn information of all Pahansila chapters and Pahansila special projects including the Pahansila-Davis project from this website.

We take this opportunity to thank our donors, the volunteers in Sri Lanka, and everyone else who help us in numerous ways to successfully continue this effort and make Pahansila dream a reality for a few promising students whose financial circumstances were threatening to put an untimely end to their education. All of you are at the heart of Pahansila Project and we owe you a very special "thank you" for continuing the concept for the future. We sincerely hope this report would be sufficient evidence of the generous contributions of our donors and the hard work and commitment of the group of volunteers in helping deserving students in Sri Lanka.

We invite you to visit the Pahansila website at http://www.pahansila.org. You can learn information of all Pahansila chapters and Pahansila special projects including the Pahansila-Davis project from this website

Pahansila US West Committee

Ruwan Jayaweera
Nipunee Jayaweera
Ruchira Sasanka
Nirasha Wellagiriya