COLOMBO (NewsRadio); The World Food Programme says more than two million people in Sri Lanka have received WFP assistance since the start of the emergency response in June 2022.
In its latest situation report on Sri Lanka, WFP said over one million people have received WFP’s emergency food and cash assistance while another one million schoolchildren received school meals.
WFP noted that it dispatched over 12,000 metric tons of commodities across the country as part of the emergency response.
It added, between the 20th of February and the 20th of March 2023, WFP provided 141,085 schoolchildren with fortified rice for school meals at 1,037 schools.
It also claims that 32 percent of households in Sri Lanka are food-insecure, and 73 percent of households continued to adopt negative food and livelihood-based coping strategies.
