Quality learning at all levels, especially for underprivileged and rural communities.
About the foundation
A public legacy carried forward through education.
The Kalyanapriya Dahanayake Foundation honors the educational and political legacy of Mr. Kalyanapriya Dahanayake and Dr. Wijayananda Dahanayake by supporting learning, civic responsibility, research, public discourse, and community development.
Legacy
Remembering service through living work.
The foundation is designed to preserve memory through action. It supports educational access, teacher growth, civic literacy, youth leadership, and informed public conversation.
Its programs connect scholarship with service: helping students, educators, researchers, and communities build the knowledge, ethics, and confidence needed for democratic life.
Training, scholarships, and support for innovative teaching methodologies.
Public events, publications, archives, and the future Dahanayake Institute and Museum.
Programs on governance, law, policy, democracy, equity, and public service.
The ancestral home
A place for research, memory, and cultural heritage.
The Dahanayake Institute and Museum will be developed at the ancestral home of the Dahanayake family. It is envisioned as a center for learning, research, public programs, and the preservation of civic and cultural heritage.
Heritage program
Archive care, oral history, exhibitions, publications, and public learning will be developed around the original family home.
Public service becomes durable when it leaves institutions, learning, and responsibility behind.
The foundation's work translates a remembered legacy into programs that help students, teachers, young leaders, researchers, and communities continue that tradition.