Millions skipping meals in Sri Lanka, as inflation hits over 57%

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Millions of families in Sri Lanka are struggling to meet their daily food requirements. Most of them are skipping meals, perhaps, surviving on just a meal a day. Even children have not been spared and are suffering due to the lack of basic resources including food and education.

The United Nations reports (based on assessment by World Food Programme (WFP)), more than a quarter of the country's 22 million people (around 6.26 million) are grappling with food crisis, unable to procure basic nutritious food. 

The country is witnessing a record 90% food inflation, turning basic food such as rice unaffordable for the common people of the nation. Staggering inflation and skyrocketing oil and commodity prices have crippled the whole nation. 

WFP reports, about 61% of households is using coping strategies, i.e., reducing amount of food they eat and consuming increasingly less nutritious meals. Adults in many families go hungry in order to feed the children.    

The worst economic crisis hit the country since 1948, due to the successive waves of COVID 19 and mismanagement and failure to perform by the government led by the then President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.   

Sri Lanka is experiencing a whopping 57.4% inflation and acute commodity shortages. Due to the extreme lack of oil supply, schools and government offices have been forced to shut down.   

Although, Sri Lanka has received aid from countries such as India, yet there is no respite for citizens from the constant financial struggle. Half a million people have already fallen below poverty line, as estimated by World Bank. 

The government has been seeking multi-billion dollar bailout from IMF (International Monetary Fund). But, as of now, financial helps seem to be months away for Sri Lanka!

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