COLOMBO: With no fuel and no money for food, H G Indrani and her category of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding an easy vegetarian meal.
Rampant food inflation and chronic shortages of cooking food gas and gas are making daily life the battle for large numbers amid of Sri Lanka’s worst recession since independence through Britain in 1948.
“There is not any income, ” stated Indrani, one of 100s queuing in the midday sun at a makeshift kitchen run with a church. “There is no food most of the time, we have been suffering a lot. ”
The price of a kilogram of rice had risen to 250 rupees (US$3. 13), from ninety rupees (US$1. 13) six months ago, the girl said.
“There is no food in your own home, ” the 57-year-old added. “We will need to suffer more. We only want to eat, to survive. ”