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By Alasdair Pal

Soup kitchens feed Sri Lanka's poor amid bleak economic crisis

People eat at a community kitchen while others stand in a queue to receive food inside a church, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

With no fuel and no money for food, H. G. Indrani and her family of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding a simple vegetarian meal.

Rampant food inflation and chronic shortages of cooking gas and petrol are making daily life a battle for millions in the midst of Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948.

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