After A Deadly Fire, A Somber Ramadan For Rohingya Children

Forbes

Sarah Ferguson
Brand Contributor
UNICEF USA

UNICEF is on the ground assisting Rohingya families devastated by a blaze that swept through four refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

On March 23, 2021, Sharifa holds her infant nephew in her arms as they stand in front of shelters destroyed by a massive fire in the Balukhali area of the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNICEF/UN0431933/MOHSI

The embers were still burning in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh as UNICEF teams rushed to help children and families after a devastating fire swept through four Rohingya refugee camps on March 22, 2021.

UNICEF staff and community volunteers immediately began working to reunite separated children with their families and to support relocation efforts for families whose shelters had been destroyed. The fire is believed to have killed at least 11 people, including 3 children. An estimated 50,000 people — half of them children — were left homeless by the blaze.

Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by deadly fire

EasternEye

March 24, 2021

A woman and a child are seen on the backdrop of temporary shelters set up for displaced Rohingya refugees days after a fire at a refugee camp in Ukhia, in the southeastern Cox's Bazar district on March 24, 2021 in which fifteen people died and 400 residents were missing. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

AID WORKERS searched on Wednesday (24) to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people from their bamboo and plastic homes.

AID WORKERS searched on Wednesday (24) to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people from their bamboo and plastic homes.

Rohingya children too deserve a meaningful future

Financial Express

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
February 08, 2021

While visiting a few Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar recently, this author met a young man there. He used to go to a Bangladeshi university a few years back but had to leave studies due to financial constraints when a new influx of Rohingya refugees took place in August 2017. The youth is currently working in Rohingya camps with hundreds of others of his age through a network to educate the Rohingya children.

We found a few Rohingya girls who can speak English quite well and are working to protect rights of Rohingya girls and women in the camps where their compatriots have been provided with shelter.

Throgh activities on Twitter,we have been in regular contact with 10-15 well-educated Rohingya youths. They live in the camps and regularly post updates on the current situation. This author also knows a few Rohingya youths who can take pictures like professional photographers. Some even write poems and stories that are published in international magazines.

25 Rohingya children arrived in Aceh without parents: Retno Marsudi

ANTARA NEWS
9th July 2020

Volunteers of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, distribute basic necessities, such as food and clothes for prayers, to Rohingya refugees. ANTARA/HO-The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Public Relations 

" There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group"

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Twenty-five Rohingya children, aged between 5 and 17 years, who are currently being sheltered in Aceh arrived without their parents, according to Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

"There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group," she told the press at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

Bangladesh: Parents fear for lost generation of Rohingya children

Amnesty International 
29 August 2019,

Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still trapped in unbearable conditions in overcrowded camps, Amnesty International said in a new briefing.

“I don’t know what my future will be”: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh warns that a ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya children are being systematically denied an education in Bangladesh, and documents the sense of hopelessness and uncertainty expressed by many young people in the camps.

Lawyer's Sincere Move Yields Good Results For Rohingya Children.

Bernama.com

25/04/2019
By Nurhanani binti Basri & Noraizura Ahmad

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- In the beginning, neither the teacher nor pupil could comprehend each other but now, a year later, some 100 children of Rohingya refugees in Seri Kembangan, Selangor, have learnt to speak decent Bahasa Malaysia.