The Toll Of Refugee Life On Rohingya Mental Health

IndiaSpend
ByShreehari Paliath
19 Jan, 2024

Experts say not all refugees have the language to connect their experiences with trauma. They need host community support, services and networks to support themselves and access mental health and psychosocial support.

Bengaluru, Delhi, Nuh (Haryana): Haris* has not yet turned 18, but feels much older. On most days of the week, after the sun sets until midnight, he picks waste along the traffic-logged roads of Bengaluru, often accompanied by his mother, Farha*.

Rohingya youth spearhead project to foster mental health

UNHCR UK
27 April 2019

Asking for help was once taboo, but young refugee volunteers in Bangladesh are showing their peers how speak up about their worries and sadnesses.

 

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – The camps have the size and complexity of a city, a city of refugees.

It is a city of 720,000 with problems and challenges peculiar to itself.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi sat watching a circle of 18 children, aged from 12 to 17, as they went through a choreographed structure of question-and-response, interspersed with dancing and exercises.

Doctors address mental health crisis among Rohingya refugees

Science Blog
March 13, 2019

A 12-year-old Rohingya boy flatly, stoically tells of how, within three hours one day in August 2017, the Myanmar military murdered 56 members of his family in their village in western Myanmar. Of his immediate family, his parents and three sisters were slain; only he and his brothers — ages 27, 25 and 10 — survived.

A mother weeps as she describes how she and her 10-year-old daughter escaped to Bangladesh after their heads were sliced open with machetes, the woman was raped and their home set ablaze. Her husband and their three other children, ages 4, 2 and 1, were killed — the baby, as she held him.