Nearly half of all children in Sri Lanka require some form of humanitarian assistance. UNICEF appeals for support to meet the urgent needs of the country's most vulnerable.

"At least 20% of children get no breakfast and go to school [on an] empty stomach," according to S Visvalingam, President of the Food First Information & Action Network (FIAN), Sri Lanka.

COLOMBO, 28 July 2022 – Nearly one in three parents responding to Save the Children’s survey in June 2022, have noticed negative changes in their children’s behaviour in the last 6 months. Since the ...

While half of Sri Lankan households are cutting their children’s food intake, according to the charity, 27 percent of more than 2,300 households it surveyed reported adults skipping meals to ...

Sri Lanka’s children suffer amid climate change-fuelled floods and disease. Story by Dimuthu Attanayake • 3mo. Turbocharged monsoon floods are intensifying the spread of waterborne diseases in ...

But not for Sri Lanka’s youngest generation. Of the more than 250 people who died in suicide attacks Easter morning, officials believe that as many as 50 were children.. Dozens more were badly ...