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Cash-for-work programme empowers Rohingya refugee women

Hamida fills sandbags alongside her all-women team of construction workers. Clad in long, black burkhas and tightly wrapped head scarves, they are helping...

42 new World Vision community kitchens help free children from firewood collecting

Ummah, 8, is happy that she no longer has to spend her days collecting firewood, thanks to the new World Vision community kitchen that recently opened near...

Something to smile—and sing—about: child-friendly spaces for Rohingya refugees

Sanjida, 10, is one of 450,000 Rohingya children living in the world’s largest refugee camp located in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Fleeing violence that...

Human Rights Day: Rohingya refugee children campaign for protection from violence

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (10 December 2018)—Rohingya children living in the world’s largest refugee camp called today for an end to the routine violence and...

Roshida’s story: Restoring refugees’ dignity and hope through WASH

The overcast sky warns the coming of rain, a sign for Roshida, 32, to bring her brood  inside the families’ simple one-room shelter. "Wash yourselves and...

Rohingya refugee children deserve to go back to school, too

Loud giggles announce the arrival of 30 excited children eager to start their day at World Vision’s child-friendly space here in this refugee camp. Eleven...

A heart for children: A humanitarian's journey

Hailing from eastern Uganda’s Jinja district, James Kamira, now 36, was raised by a single mother. Growing up in a household with five siblings was never...

Breastfeeding boosts baby Shamsida's health in the camp

Shamsida is just 24 hours old. Delivered on the floor of a leaking bamboo-and-tarp shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp, she is the first-born of...

Preventing and treating moderate acute malnutrition in refugee children, mothers in Bangladesh

Monira, 18, worries about her two young children, Kaiser, age 3, and seven-month-old Jasmina. This teenage mother is doing everything she can, but it’s...

Keeping refugee children safe during the monsoons

Children in the world’s largest refugee camp face less risk of being lost or separated from their families during the current hazardous monsoon season...

Refugee children: living in limbo between two worlds

Children are always among the most vulnerable in any humanitarian emergency. This is especially true in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar...

Between two worlds: children living in the world's biggest refugee camp

Some 883,000 people who fled violence in Myanmar last year are now living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh-- home of the world's largest refugee camp. Nearly 55...

Day in the life of a refugee mother

2:00 AM - Preparing the meal During the month of Ramadan, I wake up very early to prepare sehri for my four-year-old daughter Jannatul and myself. This is...

A better home in the camp for Jannatul

Four-year-old Jannatul naps soundly in her mother’s lap, her small face serene, carefree. “I’m thankful that she doesn’t have nightmares after all she has...

Improved water systems wash away refugee mother’s health and safety worries

Of all her worries since escaping the violence in Myanmar, Nur Banu is thankful that she no longer fears being sexually harassed while fetching water for...

Refugee girls deserve dreams and an education

As a World Vision interpreter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, I hear many harrowing stories every day from the refugees who fled the violence in Myanmar...

Myanmar child refugee: “This space helps us overcome our worries”

The sweet melodies of rhymes grow louder closer to the Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS), set up by World Vision. 10-year-old Yacob doesn’t hesitate to lead the...

World Vision continues to respond to the pressing needs of refugee children

Like Jiger and Ruma, almost 400,000 of children were displaced by the violence that erupted in Rakhine State, Myanmar. As part of World Vision’s emergency...

Child Friendly Spaces for Myanmar child refugees

World Vision is deeply concerned about the thousands of children who have witnessed and fled extreme violence who need targeted protection and psychosocial...

World Vision staff in Bangladesh refugee camp

World Vision prepares response to refugees in Bangladesh

Child Friendly Spaces provide relief for child refugees who fled violence in Myanmar

World Vision is setting up Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) at the refugee camps in Bangladesh to provide them safe spaces to draw, play, interact and heal...

Bangladesh refugees: Life goes on

More than two months after the violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar erupted, over 605,000 refugees now live in makeshift shelters within the refugee camps in...

Somsida: Where is my childhood?

“In my dreams I see people running, crying, shouting and fighting. Then suddenly, I get up in fear,” says 11-year old Somsida, one of the child refugees in...