Win, A Girl Who Refuses to Stop Learning in the Refugee Camp

Win is 12 years old. Every morning, she moves between madrasa, school, and back again. Then she walks to a child-friendly space in the camp for her afternoon session.

It sounds like a full day. For a Rohingya refugee girl in Cox's Bazar, it is also an act of quiet defiance. Eight years into displacement, over 1.1 million Rohingya refugees call Bangladesh home. More than three-quarters are women and children. And for girls like Win, staying in school is never guaranteed.

"There can be kidnapping, and sometimes girls are taken and sold here," she says. "That's why they don't allow us to go far alone."

Fear shapes daily life in the camps. Funding cuts have closed schools. Families already stretched thin are pulling children especially girls out of education to work or marry early. The dropout rate sits around 20%, and it skews heavily female.

Her mother, Sanjida, pushes back against that tide. "I try to bring them in and educate them, so they do not get involved in harmful activities."Win pushes back too in her own way. She comes home from her sessions and reminds her siblings to wash their hands. She shares what she's learned about health, nutrition, the body. She is twelve, and she is already teaching.

Through World Vision Bangladesh’s PEACE project in Cox's Bazar, girls like Win have access to safe spaces to learn, ask questions, and understand their rights small but steady ground in an uncertain world.

Win wants to become a doctor. To serve women and girls in a place where female practitioners are rare. She's already thinking beyond survival. That matters.