Sri Lankan children are skipping school because of hunger and poverty. Some schools have even requested parents not to send their children without giving any food.

"We do not see the government taking adequate measures to address the malnutrition among children in Sri Lanka. If this continues, the future of these children would be plunged to darkness," the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union, Joseph Stalin, told DW.

  • nizhoniestado [des/pair]
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    2 years ago

    Childhood malnutrition or trauma can cause long-term difficulties. Many of the children who survived the anti-Asian genocide in Zanzibar continued to have trauma well into adult-hood~physical and mental.

    • UlyssesT
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      11 days ago

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