Mrs. Prashanthi Perimpanayagam won the WIN Smile of The Year award at the Mrs. Globe International Pageant held recently at Palmspring, California USA.

Forty persons from around the globe representing their countries took part at this international show. Mrs. Globe is a celebrating of beauty, culture and charity and it is celebrating its 7th anniversary of cultural exchange. The pageant was telecast in over 30 countries around the world.

The pageant is a fund raiser for the Women in Need Foundation. Mrs. Perimpanayagam was unanimously selected by the judges as Mrs. Sri Lanka 2003 at the national pageant conducted by studio 9, Colombo.

Mrs. Perimpanayagam at present is representing Mrs. Sri Lanka at the Mrs. International 2003 pageant in Tennessee USA, where 51 participants from around the world are participating.

She is an English teacher at the Colombo Hindu Ladies College, Wellawatte and a past pupil of the Daham Pasala at Vajiraramaya Temple Bambalapitiya, Sirimavo Bandaranaike Maha Vidyalaya, Colombo and Holy Family Convent Bambalapitiya and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Perimpanayagam, a former DIG.