{"id":147457,"date":"2025-01-19T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147457"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:36:15","slug":"the-german-dharmaduta-society-donates-books-to-the-children-of-the-udaragama-primary-school-in-the-medirigiriya-district-polonnaruwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/19\/the-german-dharmaduta-society-donates-books-to-the-children-of-the-udaragama-primary-school-in-the-medirigiriya-district-polonnaruwa\/","title":{"rendered":"The German Dharmaduta Society donates Books to the children of the Udaragama Primary School in the Medirigiriya District, Polonnaruwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

German Dharmaduta Society Press Release.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The German Dharmaduta Society founded by Asoka Weeraratna in 1952 and which maintains Das Buddhistiche Haus ( Berlin Maha Viharaya in   Berlin – Frohnau) in Germany sponsored a Free Book distribution event directed towards the children of the Udaragama Primary  School (remote school) situated at the Medirigiriya District, Polonnaruwa on Friday, January 2025. The books comprised Exercise Books and CR Books regularly used by the children.

This Book distribution event was initiated by the Chief Monk at DBH (Berlin Viharaya) Ven. Pelane Dhamma Kusala Thera utilizing funds collected from his  Dayakayas worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This was the second annual book distribution event initiated by Ven. Dhamma Kusala Thera. The inaugural book distribution event was held at another school in Polonnaruwa in December 2023.

The current event was coordinated by Mr. Keminda Silva, the  long standing Administration Secretary of the GDS.

Among the others who participated at this event were:
1) Mr. Senaka Weeraratna ( Hony. Secretary, German Dharmaduta Society),
2) Mrs. Priyanka Denukedeniya (Principal, Udaragama Primary School)
3) Ms. W.A.S. Wejarthna (Principal, Mahinda Maha Vidyalaya, Medirigiriya)
4) Ms. Peggy Moeller, German National and Buddhist social worker,
5) Mr. Wickrama Jayawickrema ( Producer of TV and YouTube programmes)
6) Mrs. S.Dhammika Silva ( wife of Mr. Keminda Silva),
and members of the teaching staff of the Udaragama Primary School.

The children of the school presented several musical items as part of the welcoming ceremony.

Refreshments were served including a splendid traditional lunch comprising mainly plant based Vegetarian food.

The Hony. Secretary of the German Dharmaduta Society Mr. Senaka Weeraratna delivered an address and donated a copy of each of the recently published book ‘ ‘ 100 years Das Buddhistiche Haus ‘ commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Das Buddhistiche Haus (1924 – 2024) to the Principals of the aforesaid Udaragama Primary School and the Mahinda Maha Vidyalaya, Medirigiriya.

A large number of children and their parents attended the function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Group Photograph shows the officials of the German Dharmaduta Society and the staff of the Udaragama Primary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German Dharmaduta Society Press Release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German Dharmaduta Society Press Release. The German Dharmaduta Society founded by Asoka Weeraratna in 1952 and which maintains Das Buddhistiche Haus ( Berlin Maha Viharaya in   Berlin – Frohnau) in Germany sponsored a Free Book distribution event directed towards the children of the Udaragama Primary  School (remote school) situated at the Medirigiriya District, Polonnaruwa on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}