Day: March 30, 2019

Rohingya Children


In my last post, I wrote that UNICEF was able to improve the lives of Rohingya refugees and children. However, the discrimination and persecution the Rohingya faced in Myanmar prevented many children from living a normal life. One where they could go to school and learn. They shouldn’t worry about their family getting murdered, their house getting set on fire, or them getting attacked or raped. So, how can people help? UNICEF has their own charity that they are running that will help them provide aid to a wider amount of Rohingya children in Bangladesh’s camps and in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. One way to help is by donating towards this cause, in order to help improve the lives of these children. So please, donate. The link is in the description below. Another way is by talking more about what is happening to the Rohingya, so more people can be aware of this humanitarian crisis.

UNICEF Charity: https://www.unicef.org/child-alert/rohingya-refugee-children-futures-in-balance

Rohingya and UNICEF

UNICEF is an organization created by the UN to send people all over the world to help people suffering in humanitarian crisises, such as the Rohingya genocide happening in Myanmar. So far, UNICEF has distributed an oral vaccine to more than 1.2 million refugees , along with providing drinking water to 380,000 people in Bangladesh. UNICEF also did more than just distribute resources to the refugees, such as focusing on the children in these camps. In many of Bangladesh’s camps, they made many child-friendly spaces for Rohingya children to learn and play and by protecting young girls in these camps from gender based violence. UNICEF also helped many refugee children to continue their schooling in the camp setting up learning centers and developing a curriculum to teach them at school.

Sources:

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/bangladesh_100945.html https://www.unicef.org/child-alert/rohingya-refugee-children-futures-in-balance