Rohingya Refugee Relief Fund

Thank you for your generous gift to the Rohingya Refugee Relief Fund. Donations like yours continue to make a difference by helping to ensure Rohingya refugees receive medical care, food, psychosocial support, and protection from COVID-19 during the most challenging times. 

And for many Rohingya refugees, the past year was truly unimaginable. Between March 2021 and January 2022, two fires struck Cox’s Bazar. The fires killed at least 15 people and burned more than 11,000 refugees’ shelters along with COVID-19 treatment facilities. As media attention shifts among simultaneous crises across the world, the needs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh can go unheard and unmet. That makes your donation all the more meaningful.

We recently made two additional grants to our trusted nonprofit partners working at the forefront of this crisis. Here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported: 

• HOPE Foundation for Women & Children of Bangladesh has expanded its health care services across the Kutupalong refugee camp and scaled up its youth sports initiative. It is also administering COVID-19 vaccinations to help protect refugees as the pandemic continues.
• OBAT Helpers is serving Rohingya refugees across the Kutupalong camp network through food distribution, education programming for children, and basic healthcare services. Your donation also enabled the organization to dedicate efforts to refugees relocated to Bhasan Char, an island off the coast of Bangladesh.

Your support of the Rohingya Refugee Relief Fund powers these community-led responses, and it means Rohingya refugees get the critical resources they need. Thank you again for your generosity.

With gratitude, 

Kyra + the GlobalGiving Team

As COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh surpass 1 million, the government is jumpstarting its vaccine rollout. Around 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated. So far, that doesn’t include the Rohingya.

The Rohingya people in Bangladesh are coping with the pandemic and other disasters in their community nearly four years after more than 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee their homes and lives in Myanmar. They are still awaiting the time when they can safely return home. 

Thank you for supporting them through the Rohingya Refugee Relief Fund. Here’s a snapshot of how your donation is assisting Rohingya families and individuals living in refugee camps:

Curbing COVID-19 with care

Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s health facilities are serving Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and they haven’t closed for a single day—not even when the pandemic stretched their staff and resources thin. 

The Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh include the largest and most densely populated camps in the world. Social distancing and accessing water is difficult there, making measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 even more critical.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra, which has been working with Rohingya refugees since 1992, distributed PPE early in the pandemic and continues to provide medical support at local health facilities. As one of the largest health providers in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, the nonprofit has, to date, cared for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya. 

Offering relief where and when it’s needed

Hope Foundation for Women & Children of Bangladesh is responding to emergencies affecting Rohingya refugees with mobile medical teams. 

Hope Foundation provides masks, soap, and other essentials for women and children, who make up the majority of the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar. And when a fire swept through the district earlier this year, killing 11 people and displacing more than 45,000 as it destroyed swaths of the refugee camps, the nonprofit’s mobile medical teams responded with emergency assistance and relief supplies for survivors.

As the Rohingya population continues to face uncertainty and strives to stay safe and healthy during the pandemic, your contribution is fueling the local organizations that support them with emergency relief and ongoing care. Thank you for your generosity. We look forward to sharing more stories of how your donation is making a difference for the Rohingya.

With gratitude, 

Merinda + the GlobalGiving Team