UNDP redoubles efforts seeking aid for Sri Lanka

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Hanaa Singer, the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Sri Lanka, has made more requests for aid in support of Sri Lanka in the face of the country's economic crisis.

The appeal states that according to UNICEF, 70% of households have reduced their food consumption, primarily due to the rising cost of food, and 73% of households have had their incomes either curtailed or reduced.   

With highly restricted access to fuel and gas, supply chains are heavily disrupted, affecting all across the island, creating newly vulnerable communities everyday, the UNDP appeal further stated.

She added that the support given to the people of Sri Lanka at this moment will be appreciated.

The donations received will be used to address the current shortages in vital, essential and non-essential medical supplies in Sri Lanka, and most needed essential and non-essential medicines and medical supplies for the country will be procured in the process.

Furthermore, the UNDP donations will provide for 25,000 farmers and female home gardeners who have been identified as some of the most vulnerable, in the context of 60% drop rate in crop production in the last harvest season.