INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The government of Japan, through UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP), has granted humanitarian emergency assistance of USD 3 million to
Sri Lanka for the procurement of essential medicines and food.The Embassy of Japan in Colombo stated this in a media release published today
(May 20).Accordingly, USD 1.5 million of this grant will be utilized to procure the most urgently needed 25 types of life-saving medicines
within the next two months through UNICEF for over 1.2 million people, among them 53,000 pregnant and lactating mothers and nearly 122,000
for approximately 15,000 urban and rural communities and 380,000 school children across the island, the statement read further.Japan is
hopeful that this assistance will help ease the hardship that the people and the Government of Sri Lanka are currently facing
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