«Breaking News» Ten-year-old Sri Lankan gets scholarship to school Mail readers funded after Boxing Day tsunami

Sithumi Dhananjana is among the thousands of children who have attended the CWW Kannangara School overlooking the ocean in Sri Lanka’s southern city of Galle.

The ten-year-old is one of the first pupils to have been awarded a full scholarship to study at the country’s leading school after gaining top marks in nine subjects.

It is a remarkable achievement for Sithumi, who comes from one of the area’s poorest families, and for the school – an achievement made possible in part by the generosity of Daily Mail readers, who paid for it to be rebuilt after it was devastated in the 2004 tsunami. Thirteen years after it became the first tsunami-destroyed school to re-open in Sri Lanka, the Mail returned to see the progress made.

Headmaster Mampitiya Dharmabandhu said: ‘There was only debris left, the school had been broken by the waves and all around was heartbreak, but out of disaster it has been reborn better and stronger.’ Crucial, he said, had been Mail readers ‘who provided the gift of education to children who lost everything’. Pupils have gone on to university for the first time, while others have found jobs.

And Sithumi? She calls Kannangara ‘a place of happiness and learning’.

Sithumi I Ddhananjana ,10, (center) the school's first ever scholarship pupil with her classmates of the CWW Kannangara School in Galle

Thirteen years after the disaster, it became the first tsunami-destroyed school to re-open in Sri Lanka

Football team pupils play at the CWW Kannangara School in Galle 14 years after it was destroyed by the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004

Thanks to the opportunities given by the readers, pupils have excelled with doctors, architects, teachers, university entrants and engineers among it ranks

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Main photo article Sithumi Dhananjana is among the thousands of children who have attended the CWW Kannangara School overlooking the ocean in Sri Lanka’s southern city of Galle.
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