Kushil Gunasekera the eleventh Lankan to get Honorary Life Membership of MCC
View(s):MCC has awarded former cricketer Kushil Gunasekera, founder of the Sri Lankan charity the Foundation of Goodness (FOG), Honorary Life Membership of the Club.
The invitation was made at a recent meeting in Colombo in the presence of fellow MCC Honorary Life Member Kumar Sangakkara, and acknowledges Kushil Gunasekera’s inspirational work in the development of the MCC Centre of Excellence, which has transformed the lives of thousands of Sri Lankans over the past eight years following the 2004 tsunami.
In addition to providing medical and dental facilities serving around 50 surrounding villages, the MCC Centre of Excellence, located in Seenigama and established by Gunasekera in his ancestral property, provides relevant life skills and vocational training by way of twelve different empowerment initiatives, with a focus on education and encouraging participation in cricket.
Gunasekera joins a select group of current and former players, umpires, administrators and journalists, who are already Honorary Life Members of MCC. The list includes fellow Sri Lankans and supporters of the Foundation of Goodness – Sangakkara and Muttiah Muralitharan – alongside past greats such as Sir Garfield Sobers and modern heroes such as Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar.Honorary Life Membership is awarded by the MCC Committee to individuals in recognition of the service they have given to cricket and projects surrounding the game, often over a very long period. There are now more than 300 Honorary Life Members of MCC out of a total Full Membership of 18,000, and Gunasekera is the eleventh Sri Lankan to be invited to be an Honorary Life Member of the Club.
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