an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. Seetha is an elderly woman who takes care of ...

"I keep thinking about it, and so I can't study," said 14-year-old Girija referring to period poverty, a sentiment echoed by some of her peers. 'Some teachers will buy pads for us' Sri Lanka's ...

The methodology adopted to calculate Sri Lanka’s household period poverty rate is the number of households with women of menstruating age which have not spent money on sanitary towels divided by ...

A study this year by policy ­advocacy group Advocata said “period poverty” – being unable to afford sanitary products – among Sri Lanka’s 5.3 million women of reproductive age was about ...

About half of Sri Lanka ... Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the European Union, and the Department of Census and Statistics. Stunting in children is caused by chronic undernutrition.

Poverty in Sri Lanka has increased over the past four years ... However, with the recent spike in food prices and pass-through of fuel and utility prices, headline inflation as measured by the Colombo ...

It’s a challenge given that the number of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka doubled in 2022. “The IMF provided financial support through the extended fund facility (EFF ...

Sri Lanka is experiencing “its highest poverty rate since 2009 [when the ... is ensured not only with the military, but also through food and economic security, President Wickremesinghe has ...

Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka is struggling in economic and social recovery, while it is going through the systemic crisis that ... we see many people in a serious state of poverty", notes to ...

Many girls in Sri Lanka face period poverty. They struggle to afford sanitary ... to pick her up — a walk which takes her an hour through the hills. Her school also has no place for girls ...