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Sri Lanka’s Medicine Shortage Is Making Preventable Deaths More Likely

A number of medicines and medical items that are required by chronically ill patients are in shortage in the market due to the worsening economic crisis.

‘From Community, To Community’: How Community Kitchens Feed Sri Lanka’s Underserved

Once we had an uncle who told us that it was his second plate of rice after four months. Another one said he had a piece of chicken after three months,” Akash Moses recalled while behind him the daily operations of the Rajagiriya Community Kitchen run by the Voice For Voiceless Foundation were in full swing. “Then there was this homeless community in Kamachchode in Negombo. The people there thanked us for the food and thanked us for having a meal with them when everyone else have alienated them.

Kitchen Lament and Farming Fridays

The ‘Kitchen Lament’ is a recent protest where people clattered saucepans and pots to make noise against the Government, who they blame for causing the severe food shortage.

Sri Lankan Tea Estate Workers Continue Suffer During Economic Crisis

It is a cruel irony when the tea plantation workers have had a cup of milk tea as a luxury item. But with its economy in complete meltdown, many of the estate workers of the Argyle estate in Hatton have had to ration even their daily cups of tea.

Sri Lanka’s Medicine Crisis Explained

Sri Lanka’s once lauded free public health system, is now crippled by the economic crisis. Here’s what happened.

Gota Go Gama’s first community garden

“There will soon come a time when we cannot afford to buy even a handful of chillies from the store. So, what I’m doing here is trying to help everyone, and share my knowledge. We must learn how to grow our food again,” Rajapaksa (76) told us while tending to Gota Go Gama’s first-ever community garden.

Matara ‘Gota Go Gama’ Has A Community Cupboard

The protesters of ‘Gota Go Gama’ in Matara have set up a ‘donation cupboard’ (උදවු අල්මාරිය) as a way to help those in need during the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

A Farmer’s Fascination With Mathematics

“Maths is a very important subject” D I Anurasiri told Roar Media. “If the field of mathematics is successful, it is guaranteed that the country’s future is also successful.”

Daredevils Of Death: Sri Lanka’s Carnival Stuntmen

The travelling circus arrived in stages, one show at a time, to the public playground in Nedimala, Dehiwala, two days prior to the main event. First came the merry-go-round, with its bedazzled pink-and-white horses. Then the numerous food stalls for the usual fair fare; fried potato, cassava chips, popcorn and candyfloss.

Urban Crocodiles: Where Did They Come From?

Finding crocodiles along the coast is not a new thing — but no one wants a saltwater crocodile as their swimming buddy.

“Dear Hiruni, Do You Remember Us?”

Hiruni Wanniarachchi has been missing since 26 December 2004, the day the Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami hit Sri Lanka’s coast. The then seven-year-old was travelling with her parents and sister, seven years her senior, on the Matara Express, the Galle-bound train that was caught in the disaster. For over 17 years now, Hiruni’s parents — who believe she is alive — did everything to find her. But with nearly two decades passed with no new information or evidence of her existence, the weary family is giving up their search.

Indukadevi – The Kickboxer

20-year-old Indukadevi Ganesh from Mankulam was a boxer before she chose the niche sport of French Savate, a form of martial arts that primarily uses kicks to strike and to defend.

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