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Kingsley C. Dassanayake (/dəsəˈnaɪəkə/ də-sə-NEYE-ə-kə Sinhala: කිංස්ලි දසනායක; Template:Lang-ta), Principal of the School for the Deaf & Blind in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka was the inventor of the Sinhalese Braille system, and served as the Chairman of the Extension Scout Committee for handicapped Scouts of the World Organization of the Scout Movement as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for Colombo of the Sri Lanka Scout Association from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of Moratuwa–Piliyandala.
In 1972, he was awarded the 76th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date. He served in a Special Committee attached to the International Advisory Bureau for Handicapped Scouts and was a Vice-President of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind. .
Further he was Vice-President of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind. In 1952, when a universally accepted Braille system was introduced by UNESCO, Dassanayake was the inventor of the Sinhalese Braille system.
References
- ^ Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardess
- Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221
- https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list complete list
- Pg. No 105 of the Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962
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