By TON Bangladesh

Bangladesh has always been a friendly nation within the Indian Sub-continent. Since the influx of the Rohingyas, the Bangladeshi Government, along with UNICEF, WHO, and UNHCR, have been working hand in hand to ensure basic needs and human rights for these people. Here below, we have described how Bangladesh has been a peaceful home for the Rohingyas:

Bangladeshi is supporting education of the Rohingya children. In this following are the salients:-

• Nearly half a million Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh have been lobbying for their right to an excellent education.

• “The Bangladeshi Government has made an essential and good commitment by allowing students to go to school and pursue their ambitions for the future. A South Asia Campaigner at Amnesty International, Saad Hammadi, said, “They have already lost two academic years and cannot afford to lose any more time outside of the classroom.”
• As a result of their tremendous impact on their communities and the wider community, the benefits of educating children cannot be overstated. These people can speak up for themselves, assert their rights, and help themselves and others to get out of a sticky situation by speaking up for themselves. A child’s vulnerability to poverty and exploitation might be exacerbated if they are denied education. In light of these developments, we encourage the administration to follow through on its promises.
• Amnesty International sponsored an art camp at Cox’s Bazar refugee camps for children on World Refugee Day this past year. In collaboration with Bangladeshi artists, kids spent two days sketching out their future dreams, including teachers, doctors, pilots, and nurses.
• “Informal education program” (LCFA/GIEP) is taught in “learning centers” rather than in schools, by “facilitators” rather than teachers. UNICEF submitted the first two levels of the informal education program to the Government for approval in March 2020, and the second two levels in July 2021.
• Education in the camps is being provided by humanitarian organizations, which began slowly rolling out the first level in January of this year. The Government approved the first two levels in May 2019. Senior humanitarian official: “The education ministry has done a terrific job, but political obstructions are preventing us from making progress.”
• As a result of the informal education program, learning-center instructors now have lesson plans, and students now have textbooks. There will be a total of five levels to the informal program when it’s completed, which will be equivalent to nine years of school.

Bangladesh is ensuring that Rohingya have access to primary health care:

• Doctors Worldwide have been responding to the Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh since November 2020, in conjunction with the UN-IOM.
• COVID-19 has been circulating for a year now, and it’s more crucial than ever to assist frontline healthcare professionals. In refugee camps, healthcare personnel needs specialized training and mentorship, especially in Bangladesh, where emergency treatment is still underdeveloped.
• Doctors Worldwide will provide three significant events/programs in Cox’s Bazar between March and December 2021 as a result of this and months of planning to facilitate additional training opportunities for medical staff and promote their professional development. The Bangladeshi doctors and health care workers have been helping the ailing mothers, children, and people in the refugee camps as much as possible with the help of UNHCR.
• 11 Rohingya refugees were killed, and 10,100 households were left without shelter when three refugee camps in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, caught fire on March 22, 2021. Refugees’ shelters and personal items were soon consumed, as were critical institutions like hospitals, primary health care facilities, learning centers, and women-friendly areas.
• To help those who lost their homes and possessions, charity organizations and the Bangladeshi Government teamed up immediately after the fire broke out.
• Over 800,000 cooked meals were provided to affected households by March 31, 300 emergency latrines had been erected, and emergency shelter kits were distributed to all families that had been impacted by the fire. Over 300 people were dispatched to the camps to give mental health and psychosocial treatment to the Rohingya refugees and frontline workers who had been traumatized by the violence.
• COVID-19 vaccines were given to nearly 4,000 Rohingya refugees yesterday as part of a countrywide vaccination push to stop the deadly virus’s spread. 48,000 Rohingya refugees over the age of 55 are eligible for immunization in the first cohort. There is a deadline of August 17 for the push to conclude.
• Bangladeshi authorities have begun vaccinating Rohingya refugees, which UNHCR applauds. A fair distribution of immunizations to Rohingya refugees is crucial to halting the spread of the continuing pandemic.

• According to COVID-19 in the camps, the Rohingya refugee and host community volunteers play a vital role, according to UNHCR’s Bangladesh Representative Johannes Van Der Klau. But the first step in fully protecting a community is immunization. Thank you, Bangladeshi Government, for include Rohingya refugees in this immunization campaign.”

In the fight against the pandemic, thousands of refugee and host community volunteers have been working since 2020 to educate refugees about health and cleanliness, monitor any signs of disease, and connect the refugee population with essential health services. They have helped prevent and contain epidemics of COVID-19 and saved lives.

The Bangladeshi Government has been working relentlessly to establish peace among the refugees across several refugee camps spreading in the Chittagong area. They are friendly to these neighbors and seek help from world organizations to help them ensure this peace and rights for the refugees together.

In a nut shell, Bangladesh is helping Rohingya refugees in every field and its is now the second home for them.