Shortages of lifesaving medicine and frequent, prolonged power cuts are taking a heavy toll on the most marginalized, particularly the urban poor. Nearly half of all children in Sri Lanka require ...

“There already are 10,000 children in institutional care in Sri Lanka, mainly as a result of poverty," he said. "Such institutions are not a good place for children to grow up in. And ...

Among low-income homes, children are dropping out to support their families ... of the economic crisis is the perpetuation of the cycle of generational poverty in Sri Lanka. Given Sri Lanka’s ...

the condition of poor people is getting worse." Without adequate food supplies, her twins, Premi and Premidan, have become malnourished. UNICEF Sri Lanka is screening children for malnutrition and ...

Even before the onset of COVID-19, malnutrition stood as a significant driver of multi-dimensional poverty among children in Sri Lanka. Startling data from the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS ...

“We demand that Malaiyaha Tamil people be accepted as free and equal Sri Lankan citizens,” said Shalini Manori, a 54-year-old ...

Sri Lanka's poor and middle class want an equitable economic ... Rising food insecurity also led to malnutrition in children, with the number of those with stunted growth increasing to over ...

Out of the take home salary, he has unavoidable scheduled payments, including electricity and utility bills and his children ... international poverty line. As per studies based on the national ...

By Adam Nossiter A.T. Ariyaratne, a Sri ... poor, creating a Buddhism-inspired social services organization that operates in thousands of villages, died on April 16 in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s ...