Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda

Dharmasoka College is one of the top graded Buddhist government schools ever built in 19th century. It has been developed in a large scale and today the name “Dharmasoka” has been popular not only in southern region but in island wide. Dharmasoka College is situated in Galle District, Ambalangoda. It consists of nearly over 6000 students and about 200 teachers in the staff, led by Principal Sanuja Jayawickrama . School has maintained a high standard in education and sports over the years as well. Especially Badminton, cricket, table tennis and swimming are the leading sports events in our school. Subjects like Dancing, Eastern and Western music have also played a crucial role in our school to uphold the name Sokians. Each year approximately, 100 students enter universities from science, maths, commerce and arts streams. Mother Dhamso has been introducing many great personalities to mother Lanka and she here appears in the World Wide Web, for the first time in her proud history.

DHARMASOKA COLLEGE PAST PUPILS’ ASSOCIATION

It was 2007, when few past pupils of Dharmasoka College – Ambalangoda got-together to represent the school for Olcott Schools Alumni community at its inception. Since then, past pupils of Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda continue to grow with a remarkable contribution to the local community. As of date, with a capacity of more than hundreds of Sokians, we are preparing to undertake much more towards the local communities and for the Alma Mater.

Although it was rather a small group in 2007, we continued almost a decade consistently serving the Olcott Schools Alumni as Sokians UAE Wing without any recognition as a formal group by the school itself or the Old Boys Association. Finally, on 7th of October 2016, we, ‘Sokians – UAE’ established in the UAE, became officially recognized as a branch of the Dharmasoka College OBA – Ambalangoda. We then continued with the name ‘‘Dharmasoka College Past Pupils’ Association – United Arab Emirates’’ or DCPPA – UAE.

This was achieved as a result of trust & honesty acquired as well as the unity, strength and great team spirit shown by the past pupils of Dharmasoka College residing in United Arab Emirates.

Now we, DCPPA – UAE, with utmost strength and abundance of unique skills of its members, have enlarged the community and render where it deserved in compliance with DCPPA – UAE vision, missions and its objectives.