Access to midday meals programs showing positive results in Sri Lanka

Tea plantation communities are among the most impoverished and vulnerable communities in Sri Lanka. Years of deprivation stemming from its historic roots in indentured labour, malnutrition has become a key public health concern among plantation children. A simple intervention seems to provide a better start to life for the next generation growing up in this environment.

Midday meals program, and Udeni De Silva Perera Source: Supplied

Udeni De Silva Perera of the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University has studied the midday meals program introduced to the children in the Tea plantation communities’ Child Development Centre.  Kulasegaram Sanchayan talks to Udeni to find out more.