33 Sri Lankan teenagers to attend, Leadership Summit at Harvard University in USA

Since the year 2000 over 650 Sri Lankan teenagers have experienced this amazing week in the USA which has changed their lives forever. Since participating in these annual leadership summits 520 of them have entered foreign Universities for higher education. These include Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, Upenn, Washington, Mt. Holliork, Notradam, Macalister, Clark, Wisconsin in USA, Universities of Sydney, Melbour ne, Grif f i t h , Monash, and UTS in Au s t r a l i a . O x f o r d , Nottingham, Warrick, Leeds, Sheffield, Kings, LSE & Sussex in UK. In 2012 July, Sri Lanka will send 33 promising Te e n a g e r s to the “Leadership in Action Summit” at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The program will be conducted by People to People Organisation of The Dwight Eisenhower Foundation, founded in 1956 by the late US President, Dwight Eisenhower. From the many entries a final list of 33 promising student leaders have been selected by the Sri Lanka Country Director Ananda Rajapakse. They are; from Colombo International School Udesh Dharmadasa, Thavisha Tudawe, Musaab Kassim, Amrit Alles, Natasha Nethicumara, Huzefa Gulamhusein, Vinuri D i s s a n aya ke, Isha Dedigama, Saajid Wasik, Amresh Selvaskandan, Revatha Shah, Shivani Gunewardena, Takesh Kariawansa and Dewni Thilakawardhena; and from Ananda College Uvin Atukorale; from Bishops Collegenayanthi Peiris; from Royal College Colombo Dinuka Ariyaratne and Thulith Hewage; from Wycherly International; Minuri Tissera; from The British School in Colombo Lara Muttiah, Imashi Fernando and Hasini Assiriyage; from Asian International School Ramesh Fe r n a n d o, Nelaka Dayawansa, Ashen Joseph, Pratab Naidu, Natasha Alwis, Thivaedee Narayana and Gowtham Gunesekeran;