Disaster Response Bangladesh Project #29885

Rescue a Rohingya Refugee Family

by World Concern

Project Report | Aug 14, 2018
Your gift prepares families for the future

By Elizabeth Griffin | Senior Writer

Thanks to you, Moms and babies are being fed!

More than 1 million Rohingya now live as refugees in Bangladesh with no plans to return to their home country. But, thanks to you, families are receiving the following help:

Materials to secure the temporary structures they call home against heavy wind and rain
Fuel for heat and cooking
Access to a nutrition clinic where the diets of 15,000 pregnant and lactating women, and children under age 5, are supplemented
Burmese and English language classes
Training as seamstresses
Safe places for their adolescent children to engage socially with peers

In one language class held by World Concern in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, a student explained that he was happy to learn English “so that I can tell the story of what happened to me when I fled Myanmar and have people understand me.”

Talking about his students, Teacher Sayed said, “These young people haven’t had the opportunity for further education in Myanmar. And when they used to go to school they would learn very little. So right now they would like to learn and be educated.”

Thank you for giving! You are helping these families prepare for the future!

Students are learning Burmese and English.

Women are gaining a livelihood with sewing skills.

Families are receiving emergency fuel.

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