Samaraweera Scholars

Mangala believed Sri Lankan youth should stand tall and proud in the world, and in Mangala’s first budget as Finance Minister he announced his vision for the establishing a programme to foster a cohort of high-potential Sri Lankan youth to access top-tier global opportunities that would endow them with the knowledge and skills to return to Sri Lanka and lead the charge in building the next-generation of public service committed change-agents in state, private and entrepreneurial sectors.

His family and friends hope to fulfill this vision with the establishment of the Samaraweera Scholars programme for select high-achieving OL students from anywhere in the Sri Lanka to receive support for the additional training and study available locally & online in their subjects of choice, mentor-matching with top Sri Lankan, diasporic and Lankan allied advisors; advising support for university selection and application from successful alums and partner institutions, and language training support based on country of application.

The end goal, to increase the chances of Sri Lankan youth receiving admission and merit/need-based scholarship support for their undergraduate careers, and set in place the supports for their success and for their commitment to Sri Lanka, working from afar and then returning to build a globally-thinking, inclusively and and innovatively acting, public serving, proud Sri Lankan future.