Humanitarian

Ranjan Weththesinghe, Director of Programmes for Save the Children walks Administrator of USAID, Samantha Power, and US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung through one of the communities worst affected by the ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka. 

COLOMBO, 6 July, 2022 –More than two in three families in Sri Lanka do not have enough to eat, according to a survey by Save the Children, which warned the country’s economic crisis is rapidly becoming a full-blown humanitarian emergency.

The survey of more than 2,300 families in the crisis-hit country found that 85% of households had lost income since the onset of the economic crisis, with more than half losing most of their income and 1 in 10 losing their entire income. 

MAY 12, 2022

We, the undersigned, a network of child rights and protection organizations, are extremely concerned by the events currently taking place in Sri Lanka.  We condemn all forms of intimidation and acts of violence against children.