Staff Reporter :
The Government of Japan on Sunday sanctioned emergency grant-in- aid amounting $750,000 for six months through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
To strengthen the emergency WASH and child protection response for the new influx of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, the aid will complement the ongoing UNICEF response in these areas.
The emergency grant-in- aid will be used to support the dire need of the Rohingya children and their families ensuring strong coordination amongst all humanitarian actors to ensure effective response.
The Aid will address the severe humanitarian condition of the Rohingya by providing WASH facilities reaching out to 24,800 Rohingya children and their families directly and 60,000 indirectly.
They will be supported with provision of safe drinking water, gender segregated and disability friendly latrines and bathing cubicles, hand-washing facilities, hygiene promotion session and WASH emergency supplies.
The emergency aid will also provide child protection support reaching out to 5,000 children directly and 200,000 indirectly through provision of protective services, referral mechanism, case management and support to families of vulnerable children.
“Water, sanitation and hygiene condition are dire in the
The Government of Japan on Sunday sanctioned emergency grant-in- aid amounting $750,000 for six months through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
To strengthen the emergency WASH and child protection response for the new influx of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, the aid will complement the ongoing UNICEF response in these areas.
The emergency grant-in- aid will be used to support the dire need of the Rohingya children and their families ensuring strong coordination amongst all humanitarian actors to ensure effective response.
The Aid will address the severe humanitarian condition of the Rohingya by providing WASH facilities reaching out to 24,800 Rohingya children and their families directly and 60,000 indirectly.
They will be supported with provision of safe drinking water, gender segregated and disability friendly latrines and bathing cubicles, hand-washing facilities, hygiene promotion session and WASH emergency supplies.
The emergency aid will also provide child protection support reaching out to 5,000 children directly and 200,000 indirectly through provision of protective services, referral mechanism, case management and support to families of vulnerable children.
“Water, sanitation and hygiene condition are dire in the
refugee camps and makeshift settlements and condition is getting desperate with the growing number of influx every day. This poses high risk of possible outbreak of diarrhea and other waterborne diseases especially among children. Moreover, children are traumatized due to the violence they faced in Myanmar and need immediate psychosocial and recreational support.” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Bangladesh Representative.
Since August 2017, 500,000-plus Rohingyas have arrived in Cox’s Bazaar District; up to 60 per cent of them are estimated to be children. Most are living in harsh and insanitary conditions in makeshift camps and new spontaneous settlements in the district of Cox’s Bazar.
