{"id":596447,"date":"2023-01-11T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/i-cant-afford-my-medicine-a-sri-lankan-grannys-monthly-costs\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:16:00","slug":"i-cant-afford-my-medicine-a-sri-lankan-grannys-monthly-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/i-cant-afford-my-medicine-a-sri-lankan-grannys-monthly-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t afford my medicine\u2019: A Sri Lankan granny\u2019s monthly costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p>How a domestic worker and grandmother taking care of two children manages her monthly budget.<\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<p>[Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n<p>[Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your money worth?\u00a0<\/strong><em>A series from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis, where people who have been hit hard share their monthly expenses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Jacintha Fonseka<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 55<\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Domestic worker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lives with:<\/strong> Husband Nishantha Garusinghe, 51, and granddaughters Thisuni Dinethma, 11, and Dimagi Hithmini, seven<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lives in:<\/strong> A 26.8sq-metre (289.3sq-foot) house in Kelaniya, a mostly working-class suburb of Sri Lanka\u2019s executive and judicial capital, Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monthly household income:<\/strong> 33,000 Sri Lankan rupees ($89.34). The minimum monthly income needed by a family in the district where they live is $162, according to Sri Lanka\u2019s Department of Census and Statistics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total expenses for the month:<\/strong> 32,700 rupees ($88.53)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/longform\/2023\/1\/11\/i-cant-afford-my-medicine-a-sri-lankan-grannys-monthly-costs\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Dion Catt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a domestic worker and grandmother taking care of two children manages her monthly budget. [Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory\/Al Jazeera] [Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory\/Al Jazeera] What\u2019s your money worth?\u00a0A series from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis, where people who have been hit hard share their monthly expenses. Name: Jacintha Fonseka Age: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23771,706,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afford","category-cant","category-financial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}