Sri Lanka's tea laborers face deep poverty as floods claim numerous lives
Tea Plantation Workers Devastated by Cyclone in Sri Lanka CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli woke to deafening rain and quaking ground and ran from her home to a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same November night, a landslide crushed Kumaran Elumugam’s modest dwelling, taking the lives of six of his relatives. Elumugam only survived because he and one of his daughters were away at work when the disaster struck. “I’ve lost my wife, daughter,
Sri Lanka's tea laborers face deep poverty as floods claim numerous lives
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