Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Up to 800,000 Rohingya live in western Myanmar and many have fled to southeastern Bangladesh to escape oppression by a ruling military regime.
Bangladesh’s two official camps — Kutupalong and Nayapara — are home to 28,000 Rohingya refugees who arrived before 1993, the point at which the government stopped issuing refugee status.
Located in Cox’s Bazar district, the camps are administered by the government and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), but another 41,000 live nearby in unauthorized camps, while more than 200,000 are scattered around the region, integrated with the local population.
Children make up 65 percent of the camp population, but the government denies them anything above primary education, according to UNHCR. (IRIN/MC)
The above is taken from a story I wrote for IRIN last year. I travelled to Teknaf in southern Bangladesh, practically a stone's throw from Myanmar. I visited the Leda camp, which is home to about 13,000 people. Despite living in tiny camps, the children still found ways to be children and they buzzed about, full of smiles, while I walked around the camp.
I created a slideshow of some of the kids I met that day.
First of all I wuold like to thank and really appreciate and greatful for the mind-blowing job of helpless and national loss community people.