Sri Lanka's tea estate workers seek ‘basic rights’ as citizens The 1.5 million-strong Malaiyaha community is landless, overworked and underpaid, say activists Members of Sri Lanka's Malaiyaha ...

The World Bank noted in October that “more than half the population living in estate areas is now below the poverty line” in Sri Lanka. Workers pick tea leaves at a tea estate in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

UNICEF appeals for support to meet the urgent needs of the country's most vulnerable. Murugayya Gunasekara, 30, holds his child outside the UNICEF-supported health clinic in the tea estate area in ...

Having researched small holder tea lands in Sri Lanka, the situation is different. The down country tea growing populations in the smallholdings are relatively well-to-do, with lighting, TVs, ...

SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka (AP) — Whoever Sri Lanka's next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn't expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly ...

Like many people in Sri Lanka, this family from a tea estate village in Hanthana, in the centre of the country, have seen their finances collapse. "We manage two meals a day and it's the same ...

Glenugie tea plantation workers are outraged after the CWC and NUW unions colluded with management to shut down a strike and enforce increased workloads. Two workers remain suspended for striking.

Residents in a tea estate village in Sri Lanka. ... In some cases, poverty on the estates means children are left with no other choice but to seek work instead of attending school.

Housed in an old tea estate storage building in central Sri Lanka, Thalawakale, Krithi’s preschool, Predo had undergone a complete overhaul, transforming the space into a safe and well-equipped area ...

Sri Lanka: Economic Crisis Fuels Poverty 12/16/2022 December 16, 2022. Sri Lanka is deep in crisis and many people are barely able to afford fuel and food. The state lacks the money to help, and ...

Slim pickings for tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka election As Sri Lanka goes to the polls, workers picking tea – the backbone of the economy – have heard all the promises before. In May, the ...

Sri Lanka's tea industry grapples with a steep wage hike, but some estate owners embrace new approaches to balance worker welfare and productivity in a bid to save the sector.