{"id":57571,"date":"2023-08-15T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/15\/no-milk-no-eggs-small-hope-fears-rise-for-sri-lankas-malnourished-children"},"modified":"2023-08-15T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:30:35","slug":"no-milk-no-eggs-small-hope-fears-rise-for-sri-lankas-malnourished-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57571","title":{"rendered":"No milk, no eggs, small hope: fears rise for Sri Lanka\u2019s malnourished children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to half the crisis-hit country\u2019s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation <\/p>\n<p>For more than a year now, Anne Roshel has had no milk to give her two children, neither fresh nor powdered. Looking out from the kitchen door on a sweltering afternoon in July, she says her eight-year-old son has just a potato-stuffed bun for breakfast. Sometimes it\u2019s a packet of rice with <em>pol sambol<\/em><em> <\/em>(coconut relish), chilli and lime.<\/p>\n<p>A single mother, Roshel, 27, lives in her parents\u2019 crumbling cement house with the children and her father. Monsoon rain has washed off the pink coating on the walls, and a small veranda opens to a road in Koloniya Wella, a coastal hamlet in Chilaw, 80km (50 miles) north of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/15\/no-milk-no-eggs-small-hope-fears-rise-for-sri-lankas-malnourished-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to half the crisis-hit country\u2019s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation For more than a year now, Anne Roshel has had no milk to give her two childre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"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":[245,1149,59,1188,958,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-malnutrition","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57571","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\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57572,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57571\/revisions\/57572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}