by admin | May 14, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“All I want is to look after our grandson, to pay off our debt and not burden my children.” Jeyarani lives with her husband and grandson, managing on about 10,000 rupees a month. She works hard to stretch their income while carrying loan debt. She...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“My children aren’t in school right now. We had to pull them out because we didn’t have enough money.” Pushparani lives with her husband and children, running the house on his seasonal stone-loading work, that stops entirely off-season. With school costs...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“We haven’t cooked today. There is nothing to cook with and the whole family is sick.” Pushpavathi lives with her husband and 2 sons. She makes vadai to bring in income. But now her asthma and fever have stopped it completely. Her husband cannot do heavy labour...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“The storm took everything we had, forty, fifty coconut trees knocked down, and our house was gone.” Punitha manages the house while her husband travels far for wage work. With their bicycle broken, getting her kids to their distant school is hard. She...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“We earn just enough for food. Nothing is left for anything else.” Niroja and her husband are raising a 1-month-old with no home of their own and no toilet. Her husband travels far for daily labour, and she worries each time he goes. She manages every rupee...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Back a Family, Batticaloa - Back a Family
“When my husband had his accident, we had no money. I fried vadas and went house to house to feed my family, and we still couldn’t eat three meals.” Santhaluxmi manages her children alone while her husband works in Colombo. After his accident left him unable to do...
