18 days ago
The Business Standard
Since there is no alternative to conventional classroom learning in Sri Lanka, missing school has a massive impact on all children Photo: DWDuring recent months, Nadeeka Priyadharshani, a garment factory worker living in Katunayake, close to Sri Lanka's major international airport, faced a new constraint when sending children to school — food. A 2021 policy decision by the Sri Lankan government to rapidly ban organic agriculture resulted in a 40-50% harvest loss last year. 'Too small to stay hungry'This meant that many children began skipping school because they did not want to go to school with an empty stomach. "We do not see the government taking adequate measures to address the malnutrition among children in Sri Lanka. He added that the existing government nutritional program targets only 1.1 million public school children out of 4.3 million.
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