Aid agency opens village for Rohingya Muslims

DAILY SABAH 

ANADOLU AGENCY

BURSA, Turkey

Published 17.05.2019

A Turkish aid agency has built a village for Rohingya refugees, the majority of whom are Muslims, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazaar region. Named "Emir Sultan," the village consists of 414 bamboo huts, two water wells, two mosques, a community space and a garbage plant.

"Thanks to these houses, our Muslim brothers and sisters got electricity at their houses for the first time. We have put solar panels on every house," said Halil Asa, a representative of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH), one of the leading Turkish aid groups." The Rohingya see Turkey as a source of optimism. They see hope when they know you are from Turkey and carry a Turkish flag on your clothes," said the İHH official.

Briefing: How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

IRIN

BANGKOK, 13 February 2019

Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on 4 February 2019. CREDIT: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)

Aid groups and authorities in Bangladesh are preparing to ask for more than $900 million in donor funding to help Rohingya refugees in the sprawling refugee settlements of southern Bangladesh.

But nearly 18 months after 700,000 Rohingya fled a violent military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017, the aid sector finds itself shifting from emergency response to dealing with a protracted crisis.