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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Saroj Pathirana

Half of Sri Lanka families reducing children food intake: Charity

A father and son share a meal at their shanty in Colombo [File: Eranga Jayawardena/AP]

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has spiralled into a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a child rights charity.

The Sri Lankan government and the international community must act now to prevent the country’s children from “becoming a lost generation”, Save the Children warned in a report published on Thursday.

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