{"id":49705,"date":"2022-10-28T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/oct\/28\/parents-cant-afford-meat-eggs-and-milk-children-bear-the-brunt-of-sri-lankas-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:30:20","slug":"parents-cant-afford-meat-eggs-and-milk-children-bear-the-brunt-of-sri-lankas-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49705","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Parents can\u2019t afford meat, eggs and milk\u2019: children bear the brunt of Sri Lanka\u2019s economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child malnutrition is soaring as inflation hits  94.9%, and many are missing school because parents do not have the cash to send them<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, at a state school in the centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka, it has become common for children to faint in the middle of class. Students, coming from homes in the capital where parents can barely afford a meal a day, have been arriving at school quietly starving, as the country continues to grapple with the worst economic crisis since the great depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents can\u2019t afford the meat, eggs and milk that children need,\u201d says Sandarenu Amarasiri, a teacher, adding that many were also missing school because financial hardship meant they could not afford transport, uniforms and shoes. This month, in an attempt to tackle the rampant hunger, the school began a programme giving basic lunch to students.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/oct\/28\/parents-cant-afford-meat-eggs-and-milk-children-bear-the-brunt-of-sri-lankas-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child malnutrition is soaring as inflation hits  94.9%, and many are missing school because parents do not have the cash to send themOver the past few months, at a state school in the centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka, it has become common for children to f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,615,59,1389,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-education","category-global-development","category-hunger","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions\/49706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}