Challenges for children hit hard, in my home Sri Lanka
Since starting as Regional Director for UNICEF South Asia in June 2023, I’ve felt a profound sense of pride and responsibility to be serving the 625 million children of the region that I call home. Sri Lanka has always been home — and the unique challenges children face here are close to my heart. So, my first field visit to Sri Lanka as Regional…, Fuelling children’s bodies and feeding their minds, UNICEF/UNI464402/UNICEF Sri Lanka UNI464413 UNI464413, Fuelling children’s bodies and feeding their minds, UNICEF/UNI464413/UNICEF Sri Lanka UNI464402 UNI464413 Our next stop was Dombagaswinna primary school. The 43 students here have faced huge challenges to their learning from COVID-19 closures, compounded by the economic crisis. Sri Lanka had some of the longest school closures in the world. Just as things were returning to normal, the economic…