Staff Reporter :
The United Kingdom will give an extra £87 million for sustaining the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, lifting their contribution to a total of 226 million pounds since the start of the Rohingya crisis since August 2017.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson and Head of DFID Bangladesh Judith Herbertson shared the announcement in a media briefing in the residence of British High Commissioner on Sunday afternoon.
The extra funding, the UK says, will enable the government of Bangladesh and the international community to find longer-term solutions for the Rohingyas.
Over £20 million is being available to support development in Cox’s Bazar to mitigate the economic and environmental impact of the Rohingya crisis on the local communities, it says.
It will also help provide food, healthcare, water, sanitation, care and counselling for sexual violence survivors, and protection for vulnerable groups.
The UK is working to ensure that the international response benefits all the population in the district, according to British High Commission.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million
The United Kingdom will give an extra £87 million for sustaining the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, lifting their contribution to a total of 226 million pounds since the start of the Rohingya crisis since August 2017.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson and Head of DFID Bangladesh Judith Herbertson shared the announcement in a media briefing in the residence of British High Commissioner on Sunday afternoon.
The extra funding, the UK says, will enable the government of Bangladesh and the international community to find longer-term solutions for the Rohingyas.
Over £20 million is being available to support development in Cox’s Bazar to mitigate the economic and environmental impact of the Rohingya crisis on the local communities, it says.
It will also help provide food, healthcare, water, sanitation, care and counselling for sexual violence survivors, and protection for vulnerable groups.
The UK is working to ensure that the international response benefits all the population in the district, according to British High Commission.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million
Rohingyas. Most of them fled from their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine State after the military launched a brutal offensive targeting the mainly-Muslim ethnic minority.
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma in a statement said it is hard to truly grasp the size of the humanitarian crisis faced by the Rohingya people and mentioned that more than 700,000 were forced to flee their home in the face of horrific brutality.
“We appreciate the enormous generosity of the Government of Bangladesh and the people of Cox’s Bazar. And we pay tribute to all those working tirelessly to support the Rohingya living in the camps,” the envoy said.
