Massive fire in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps leaves 45,000 people displaced

OXFAM

By Oxfam

April 6, 2021

Oxfam Senior Public Health Promotion Associate Arif Hossen helps refugees collect drinking water in the aftermath of a devastating fire in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps on March 22. The blaze spread rapidly for several hours in the densely populated camps, destroying homes and critical water and sanitation infrastructure. Oxfam emergency response teams are on the ground providing safe drinking water, hygiene kits, and emergency latrines. Mutasim Billah / Oxfam

Oxfam assisting survivors with clean water, soap, emergency latrines

A massive fire that swept through the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on March 22 has left 10,000 families—roughly 45,000 people—displaced and in urgent need of food, water, and sanitation services. The fire was yet another devastating blow to the Rohingya people who fled shocking violence and persecution in Myanmar.

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ေရႀကီး ေျမၿပိဳမႈေတြျဖစ္ ေပၚ

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

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ေဇာ္ထက္

ေရႀကီးေနတဲ့ ကူတူပေလာင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းထဲ က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား (မွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံု- ၂၀၁၇၊ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ )

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ ျပည္နယ္အမ်ားစုမွာ မိုးသည္းၿပီး ေရႀကီးေရလွ်ံျဖစ္ေနလို႔ ဒုကၡသည္အမ်ားစုေနေနတဲ့ Cox’s Bazar ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာလည္း ေရႀကီးတဲ့ဒဏ္ကို ခံစားေနရပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္တခ်ိဳ႕ေျပာျပခ်က္ကို ကိုေဇာ္ထက္ တင္ျပေပးမွာပါ။

Waste not, want not at Rohingya refugee camps

ASIA TIMES

By Michael Hayes, Kutupalong

A promotional sign for the Kutupalong refugee camp‘s new waste management plant, the largest of its type in the world, February 2019. Photo: Michael Hayes

There are those who will argue that this story wreaks like a bowel movement but someone has to do it. And so do the roughly 900,000 Rohingya refugees stuck in camps in Bangladesh, every day.

On February 1, aid agency OXFAM and UNHCR opened the Centralized Fecal Sludge Management Plant (CFSMP) at Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp, the largest such fecal waste plant in any refugee camp on the planet.

Education and income-generation must be top priorities for Rohingya refugees

OXFAM

International

Published: 16 February 2019

Education and income-generating opportunities must be made top priorities for the nearly 1 million Rohingya still languishing in the world’s largest refugee camp almost 18 months after fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, said three leading NGOs at the launch of a new UN funding plan for the crisis launched in Geneva today.

UNHCR: Largest ever refugee waste management facility in Rohingya camps

February 2nd, 2019

File Photo of a Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

‘This will significantly reduce health risks for refugees and host communities, and the likelihood of the outbreak of disease’
The ability to treat large volumes of waste on-site at Rohingya camps, rather than having to transport it elsewhere, is a critical step to safe and sustainable disposal of such waste in emergency situations, said the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).