The United States will send Sri Lanka an additional $ 20 million in the form of help to combat the consequences of the economic crisis, said Sri Lanka President Gotabai Rajapax, TASS reports.
“I thank US President Joe Biden for a promise to allocate an additional $ 20 million for assisting Sri Lanka to provide food for more than 800 thousand children and 27 thousand pregnant women and lactating mothers for the next 15 months,” he wrote on Twitter.
Sri Lanka is experiencing the worst economic crisis since the acquisition of independence in 1948. It is caused by a reduction in the number of foreign tourists due to pandemia, which led to a lack of foreign exchange reserves in the country.