Child Protection Syrian Arab Republic Project #21637

Child Refugee Crisis

by Save the Children Federation

Project Report | Dec 27, 2024
Reyhan* and Mizgin: Displacement in Syria

By Save the Children | Save the Children

Reyhan* and Mizgin

Thank you for supporting Save the Children's Child Refugee Crisis fund! Here is a story of a child and her family we have been able to support thanks to donors like you:

Reyhan* is 11 years old, and loves her mother Nergiz*, twin brother Berhim* and her cat Mizgin. Her family were first displaced from their town in 2018 and had been living in a rural area to escape the conflict.

However, when conflict escalated nearby in November 2024, the family fled again and are now living in a school that has been turned into a shelter for internally displaced families. They had to escape quickly, so they don’t have many supplies or warm clothes with them.

Reyhan refused to leave Mizgin the cat behind when they fled, because she is part of the family. Mizgin was afraid of the gunfire during the journey and stuck close to Reyhan.

Reyhan and Mizgin adore each other, and Reyhan wishes to one day go home so she can play with Mizgin outside her house.

Save the Children is supporting the shelter where Reyhan’s family are living by supplying essential hygiene items.

How is Save the Children helping Reyhan and her family?

Save the Children is supporting families living at the school with distributions of essential supplies. So far the families have received hygiene products and a distribution of dignity kits to women and girls aged 12 and above is planned.

Thank you again for all your support!

*names have been changed for privacy and protection

Reyhan* and Mizgin

Links:

Save the Children - Syria

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Aug 27, 2024
Rohingya Refugees: 7 Years On

By Save the Children | Save the Children

Rohingya refugee children learning in a camp.

Thank you for donating to Save the Children's Child Refugee Crisis fund! Here is an update on some of our work, which is only possible due to supporters like you:

August 25, 2024, marks seven years since more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh. In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the humanitarian response has saved lives and provided protection and basic services for the Rohingya refugee community. However, seven years on, conditions are getting worse for more than 500,000 Rohingya refugee children who remain in protracted displacement.

The humanitarian situation is reaching a breaking point. For seven years, Rohingya refugee children have gone without formal education, parents and caregivers have gone without employment, and all refugees have become more vulnerable to deaths and injuries from large-scale fires, flooding, and rising violence and insecurity in the camps than ever before.

The Crisis In Numbers

Cox’s Bazar is home to the largest refugee settlement in the world, with almost 1 million Rohingya refugees, most of whom have now been living in the camps for seven years. There are 1.6 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazar.
Approximately 514,000 Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh are children, which is 52% of the entire camp population.
More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are dependent on food aid from humanitarian organisations.
This year, over 300,000 children have enrolled in education programmes at learning centres in the camps. Education for Rohingya refugee children remains a challenge as education is not formally accredited, and accommodating more vulnerable students, such as girls and children with disabilities, is difficult in the camp environment. Accreditation and more flexible learning environments is needed to increase to ensure education is accessible for all Rohingya children.

Save the Children's Response

Save the Children is one of the leading International NGOs working in Cox’s Bazar and has been there since 2012. It has reached about 600,000 Rohingya refugees, including more than 320,000 children, since the response began in 2017.
Save the Children has a workforce of 354 staff and 339 volunteers supporting programs in child protection, access to education, health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene services, as well as distribution of shelter and non-food items. We work in 27 out of 33 Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

*Names have been changed for protection and privacy.

Nuri*, 15, reading a lesson book in the camp.

Links:

Save the Children - Rohingya Crisis

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May 7, 2024
Learning and Advocating - Ghinwa's* Story

By Save the Children | Save the Children

Ghinwa with her Child's Rights Governance group

Thank you for supporting Save the Children's Child Refugee Crisis fund! Here is the story of Ghinwa*, a Syrian refugee who has received support from our programs in Lebanon:

Ghinwa, 13, and her family fled the war in Syria when she was just five years old and settled in a camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Since then, life has been extremely hard for all of them. With her father unable to work due to a stroke, and her older brother needing regular medical treatment, Ghinwa must try to help bring in money - so she sells water and tissues to drivers at a busy crossroads outside the camp. Aware of the negative impact on her wellbeing, she says: "Working makes me feel that I am very poor and always in need...like I am so different to other people (kids) who don’t work.”

She wasn't able to start school until aged 10, and so naturally struggled to keep up with her peers - and when the economic crisis hit Lebanon bringing electricity cuts and teachers’ strikes, she stopped attending school altogether.

Ghinwa felt her life had no possibilities: "I couldn't read or write, I had no hope for my future, I had no dreams," she says.

Ghinwa attends a Save the Children-supported education center near her home. There, she has learned to read and write, grown in confidence, made friends, and become informed about her rights. Now, not only is she literate, she also believes in herself: "If I study and focus hard, I can achieve anything I want." She participates in the Child's Rights Governance program at the center and is eager to speak up on behalf of all child refugees.

Life is still challenging for this young activist but the difference is she now has education, and therefore a dream: to be a lawyer, defending children's rights. The impact of the education center on Ghinwa cannot be underestimated - "It has changed my whole life," she says.

Save the Children places a great importance on encouraging children and young people to speak up about their rights, delivering a message to those who have the power to make change.

Through the Child’s Rights Governance program, Save the Children aims to amplify children’s voices and make them heard on the national, regional and global level. The program helps build the capacity of children to become child rights advocates and agents of change.

All names have been changed to protect identities and personal information.

Ghinwa lives in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon

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