How a domestic worker and grandmother taking care of two children manages her monthly budget.
What’s your money worth?A 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: 55
Occupation: Domestic worker
Lives with: Husband Nishantha Garusinghe, 51, and granddaughters Thisuni Dinethma, 11, and Dimagi Hithmini, seven
Lives in: A 26.8sq-metre (289.3sq-foot) house in Kelaniya, a mostly working-class suburb of Sri Lanka’s executive and judicial capital, Colombo.
Monthly household income: 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’s Department of Census and Statistics.
Total expenses for the month: 32,700 rupees ($88.53)
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