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Reaching Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Sathi, a humanitarian worker and interperter in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh shares briefly about her work, what motivates her and the hopes and dreams of the...

Thousands of Rohingya refugees are left without shelter due to a fire in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Cox's Bazar fire: Thousands of Rohingya refugees are without shelter or food

Not too long ago, Camp 9 of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, was full of makeshift shelters, full of lives, full of temporary infrastructures...

Cash-for-work: Building the foundation of better life

Six months ago, Nurul faced one of the most desperate nights of his life. "It was 1:00 am. My wife had labour pains, but there wasn't any transport...

This Rohingya men's group are fighting against domestic abuse

Rohingya refugee fathers unite to protect children from violence

In Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, home to around one million people, the threat of COVID-19 looms large. Living in cramped, unsafe conditions...

Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for Minara, a 35-year-old single Rohingya mother, who came to Bangladesh in July 2017 with her five children just before violence erupted in Myanmar.

Women learn sewing masks at World Vision’s multi-purpose training center to protect Rohingya communities from COVID-19

Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for Minara, a 35-year-old single Rohingya mother, who came to Bangladesh in July 2017 with...

The innovative USAID’s Food for Peace Emergency Food Security programme is working to improve the food security and nutritional status of 5,229 vulnerable host community households and 34,112 Rohingya households who live nearby in the world’s largest refugee camp.

USAID EFSP-funded cash assistance helps Bangladeshi elderly, widows cope with COVID-19 economic fallout

The innovative USAID’s Food for Peace Emergency Food Security programme is working to improve the food security and nutritional status of 5,229 vulnerable...

World Food Programme and World Vision: Putting food on the table for 54,200 Rohingya refugee households—one family at a time

World Food Programme and World Vision: Putting food on the table for 54,200 Rohingya refugee households—one family at a time

In partnership with World Food Programme, World Vision distributed food rations to more than 54,200 Rohingya refugee households living in the world’s...

Ankis is one of 16,300 Rohingya children under age 5 who are receiving life-saving supplementary food through World Vision’s malnutrition prevention and treatment programme. More than 4,000 pregnant and lactating women, including Ankis’s mother, Sowkat, are also benefitting from the year-long programme.

Beating malnutrition in the Rohingya camps

Ankis is one of 16,300 Rohingya children under age 5 who are receiving life-saving supplementary food through World Vision’s malnutrition prevention and...

To help Rohingya families stay safe, World Vision began training refugee women to sew and produce re-usable cloth masks, as part of a project funded by Korea International Cooperation Agency.

Rohingya women and girls make face masks to help protect their community from COVID-19

To help Rohingya families stay safe, World Vision began training refugee women to sew and produce re-usable cloth masks, as part of a project funded by...

Former sponsored child is coping with a very different kind of crisis: containing COVID-19 in the world’s largest refugee camp—home to almost 1 million Rohingya refugees.

Containing COVID-19 in the world’s largest refugee camp: challenge of a lifetime for operations director, Atul Mrong, a former sponsored child

World Vision Bangladesh operations director, Atul Mrong, 43, never ducks a challenge. In his 17-year career, he has managed disaster responses to...

When marriage seems like an escape

Nearly 1 million Rohingya have fled to Camp 13 in Cox’s Bazar after decades of discrimination, denial of citizenship and brutal violence as Muslim...

COVID-19 in refugee camps: Eunus Rohingya refugee adolescent story

Eunus, 16, one of 860,000 Rohingya refugees, shares how he's been missing going to World Vision's learning centre since the lockdown. However, he is...

Nurankis, 11, happily receives soap for her family from World Vision.

Building awareness and helping prevent COVID-19 in the Rohingya refugee camps

Rohingya families living in the world’s largest refugee camp in southern Bangladesh are concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents want to keep their...

Najir’s children enjoy the apples he bought as part of monthly food ration from the World Food Programme e-voucher store, which is run with support from World Vision.

Providing dietary diversity to Rohingya refugees through e-vouchers

Najir, 42, carefully picks through the bushel, selecting a kilogram of perfectly shaped, unbruised apples for his seven children. Apples and other fresh...

Fresh Food

Fresh food vouchers improve diets of Rohingya mothers

Romida carefully lifts her one-year-old Salman onto her lap. She’s thankful that her son is growing up healthy. They have been through a lot together. The...

Rohingya women: Speaking up, speaking out

Rohingya women and girls are among the most vulnerable of the 1 million people living in the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. But...

Shahanara, a Rohingya mother of three children, collects water from one of 30 water points in Camp 15 that provide chlorinated potable water to more than1,000 refugee and host community families. World Vision installed the innovative solar-powered water network, funded by Global Affairs Canada. Photo: Himaloy Joseph Mree, World Vision

Pump it up: Solar-powered network delivers water to refugees’ doors

Getting a glass of water for your child shouldn’t be difficult. But here in the world’s largest refugee camp in southern Bangladesh that is home to almost...

“Refugee children and their families are front and centre of everything we do. Let’s never forget this,” says Rachel Wolff, Response Director of World Vision’s humanitarian operations in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Leading from the frontlines in the Rohingya refugee response

“Refugee children and their families are front and centre of everything we do. Let’s never forget this,” says Rachel Wolff, Response Director of World...

Two years ago, 740,000 Rohingya people their homes in Myanmar to escape violence and persecution.

Photo Gallery | Two Years On Rohingya Refugee Response | 25 August 2019

“We will not go back to Myanmar without our rights. We have suffered too much. We are grateful to the Government of Bangladesh for giving us a safe place to live."-Fayas

What it means to be Rohingya

The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar. Before August 2017, the majority of the estimated one million Rohingya in Myanmar resided in...

children on the move

Shampa's heart for children's safety

It’s the children’s fear that Shushanna Shampa Kundu remembers most, almost two years later. “The children were so stressed because of the horrible...

Citizens of NOWHERE

Citizens of NOWHERE

Five-year-old Jannatul Firdous is deep in thought. How best to describe the meaning of her name? Jannatul Firdous means heaven — the best heaven — so she...

I want to be a teacher or a doctor or an engineer

Shahed wants his education back now

“Are you a photographer?” I didn’t expect to hear this question in English from a 14-year-old boy in a refugee camp. “Yes, I am,” I replied. I have met...

Nur's Journey | Documentary Film

Life changed for Nur when the violence broke out in Myanmar and her family fled to Bangladesh. Despite the challenges living in the refugee camps, her...