During December, an Oral Cholera Vaccination campaign was carried out, reaching 162,895 Rohingya refugee children and 528,297 Bangladeshi children in host communities in both Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilas. The campaign was launched in response to the increased number of positive cases of Acute Watery Diarrhoea, 237 of which were reported from 5 September to 25 December 2019. There was a …
What It Was Like to Work in a Rohingya Refugee Camp At the Start of the Crisis
By Daniele Selby FEB. 9, 2018 Immad Ahmed, Executive Director of OBAT Helpers, the chaos of the crisis’s earliest days. Immad Ahmed is the executive director of OBAT Helpers, a nonprofit organization that has been working in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. The camps have existed for decades and are home to both refugees and internally displaced people, but have seen a massive influx …
Rohingya Refugee Megacamp: Need as far as the eye can see
Ann Strimov Durbin Ann Strimov Durbin is a human rights attorney and the Director of Advocacy and Grantmaking at Jewish World Watch. Nothing blew me away on this trip to Bangladesh more than my visit to the largest Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, the sprawling Kutupalong megacamp where about 600,000 Rohingya refugees are living in chronically overcrowded and squalid conditions … …
Giving Refugee Communities the Design They Deserve
Immad Ahmed discusses the challenges in creating inhabitable spaces for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. By KATHARINE KEANE Listen to more podcast episodes from ARCHITECT here. When refugee aid nonprofit OBAT Helpers, based in Indianapolis, set out to help establish a community for some of the 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fleeing persecution in neighboring Myanmar, design challenges abounded. Of the land not …
Humans Of New York Feature!
Nobody was prepared for this. There are now 700,000 people trying to figure out how to survive in the middle of nowhere. A few months ago, this entire area was a national forest reserve. It was covered with trees. But the refugees had nothing when they arrived, so they started cutting the trees for fuel. Then they moved on to …
HONY Fundraiser for Rohingya Response
March 4, 2018 For the next week, we’ll be sharing the stories of Rohingya refugees on Humans of New York. Nearly 700,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh over the past several months, having been violently expelled from their homes by Buddhist extremists in Myanmar. They have experienced and witnessed many atrocities. Most of these refugees have settled in two sprawling …