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Shutdowns, shortages, pay problems and strikes are playing out across the island, with the female backbone of the garment industry paying the highest price.

Sri Lanka faces an economic crisis of its own making that is taking a heavy toll on low-paid female garment workers sewing clothes for wealthier women in the West.

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When they earn millions of dollars off of our many hours of arduous work, we are paid little," said 22-year-old Charika Fernando. Victoria's Secret did not immediately reply to a request for comment about pay and conditions among workers at its suppliers in Sri Lanka.

The pandemic was hard enough. Now, Sri Lanka faces an economic crisis of its own making that is taking a heavy toll on low-paid female garment workers sewing clothes for wealthier women in the West. "I have never seen anything like this in my 20-year career," said one factory owner, who employs 20 women to make vests and slips, some of whom have been on his payroll for over a