the unwanted What is UNHCR doing to help?
Since August 25, 2017, UNHCR has airlifted 1,500 metric tonnes of emergency life-saving aid
to Bangladesh—
including blankets, plastic sheets, sleeping mats, family tents, plastic rolls, kitchen sets, jerry cans and buckets to assist 250,000 refugees. With its partners, UNHCR is developing Kutupalong Extension, a new site near Kutupalong refugee camp. This includes funding a road to facilitate construction and refugee access, supporting site planning, building latrines and wells, improving the water and sanitation facilities and distributing shelter materials.
As in any humanitarian crisis in which families become separated, UNHCR registers families and has established a referral system to reunify unaccompanied children with their parents. Victims of sexual violence, in particular, are referred to safe spaces. UNHCR is also enhancing efforts to identify and refer children at risk, so they can receive the appropriate support. «
017—“We were running, everything happened very quickly and then I could not see my omeone that he is alive but still in Myanmar…." Rohingya refugee Fatima, 37, holds her ear-old daughter, Shahena, as night falls at Palong Khali refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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October 30, 2017—An aerial view over the Kutupalong refugee extension site in Cox's Bazar, south-east Bangladesh. Over 600,000 have arrived since late August 2017, hungry, traumatized, in poor physical condition and in need of life-saving support.
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October 23, 2017—A Rohingya father and child are among some 40,000 people living in the muddy and unsanitary Unchiprang makeshift
camp in south-east Bangladesh, established by refugees who fled Myanmar.
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