Reaching out to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Format We started responding the day Rohingya refugees crossed the border. We will stand by their side until this crisis lasts, says Shakeb Nabi. He and his team in Cox s Bazar, Bangladesh, just won a second innovation award for their turning waste into resources project. And the community kitchen they support serves thousands of meals a day to survivors of the recent blaze that devastated part of the refugee camps.
Humanitarian work in one of the world s largest refugee settlement areas means dealing with a thousand challenges at the same time. At the exact moment that we establish an online connection with Shakeb, who is Cordaid/ICCO s country representative in Bangladesh, COVID-19 messages of a mobile awareness-raising unit flood the streets and totally blur our conversation.