EMERGENCY APPEAL
The Rohingya are fleeing violent persecution and are in urgent need of your support.
Since August 2017, over 700,000 Rohingyas have been forced to evacuate, fleeing from mass atrocities, torture and extermination. Crossing the border from the Rakhine State in Myanmar to Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, they are hoping to find salvation. António Guterres (UN Secretary General) described it as “the world’s fastest developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare”.
Many have witnessed horrific scenes and endured perilous journeys, having run from arson, kidnapping, rape, false arrests, forced disappearances and summary execution. Separated in the chaos, many are unaware if their loved-ones are alive or dead or where to begin their search.
Terrified and desperate, they have nothing. No home. No medicine. No food.
These traumatized people need your help.
The needs are huge. Since early October 2017, we are in the field to serve the Rohingyas.
In the first 2 weeks, our immediate response, facilitated by the mobilization of 50 of our staff has been to bring food, build bridges to ease the reception of Rohingyas, set up 4 clinics, a mobile pathology ambulance and a water tank for providing safe drinking water. The needs are huge and we need to reinforce our actions thus far; involve the communities and thus bring about appropriate solutions. In the coming weeks, we will concentrate our efforts on setting up maternity clinics, deep tube wells, latrines, bathing spaces, dry food, nutritional support for mothers and babies, solar power for clinics and on creating social spaces.
To bring about these solutions we urgently need to mobilize supplementary resources support. Every little bit helps.
Families escape conflict only to face the heavy monsoon rains and flooding
Mothers are desperate to find food and shelter for their new born babies
The elderly arrive sick and weak. Many arrive carried by their relatives.
70% are women and children. Most of the men were killed in Myanmar.
Setting up clinics and birthing centers
Installing tube-wells to ensure access to safe drinking water
