Successive waves of COVID-19 pandemic have caused untold hardships to poor rural families and school children in Northern Sri Lanka. Frequent lockdowns not only hampered the income-earning opportunities of the poor, but also disrupted food supply chains driving the vulnerable families to near starvation.
CORD Sri Lanka, following the emerging situation very closely, intervened to support its Self-Help Groups (SHG) and school children in October 2021 by providing dry rations and money. Each of the 219 SHG families and sponsored children received dry rations and Rs 2000 each to supplement their meager earnings.
CORD also provided dry rations to 210 SHG families in Ramboda in the Central hill country
Further, to keep the morale of the school children, CORD conducted two inspirational lectures by experts for 50 school children attending classes from Grade 9 up to GCE AL.
