What’s your money value? A series from the front line of the payment-of-residing disaster, where those which were hit exhausting part their monthly costs.
Title: Jacintha Fonseka
Age: 55
Occupation: Domestic employee
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 govt and judicial capital, Colombo.
Monthly household earnings: 33,000 Sri Lankan rupees ($89.34). The minimum monthly earnings wanted by a household in the district where they live is $162, according to Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics.
Whole costs for the month: 32,700 rupees ($88.53)
