Help Save Our Rohingya Family
Australia
The Rohingya Refugees, including our family, living in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp are amongst the most unknown and forgotten refugees in the World. Out of a million Refugees in Cox’s Bazar, this family has been given a chance for a new life. They already have sponsors in Canada, and $20,000 of the $45,000 needed to support them has already been donated. We need your help to raise the remaining $25,000.
We are asking you to donate now to this appeal. Whether a small or a large amount you will help a Rohingya family of six (Mother, Father, Son and three Daughters) escape the dangers and misery of life in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp and give them a new life of safety and security in Canada.
Most importantly we already have Canadian Sponsors (The Group of 5) who are ready and waiting to help this family on arrival. The money raised goes towards paying for accommodation, clothing, schooling, medical expenses etc. The funds will be held in a secure bank account and co-managed by members of their sponsorship team and will be disbursed under guidelines provided by the Canadian Immigration Department. The Sponsors will also guide and support the family to meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of their new life in Canada.
The Sponsors are already sponsoring the eldest son, Mohammed. Through video chats they came to know and like the family and offered to sponsor the rest of his family.
Such a wonderful life changing opportunity could not be missed.
While Mohammed is waiting for his application to be processed, he has been teaching his family English which he speaks quite well. His Sisters are making good progress, the others are a little slower although his Father now recalls some of his English writing skills. Mohammed’s Father and Brother have stated that they would like to study but their main concern when reaching Canada is to support the family and in time become active in their community. The three Sisters all want to take whatever educational opportunities are offered. They all have dreams of wanting to study and to go onto having careers which will help others.
We do know that they are community minded. They belong to refugee-led Camp Groups who arrange urgent blood donations for the NGO Clinics and the males escort other sick refugees to appointments. They have organised for donations of food to be given to refugees who had nothing after the floods. In August of this year the Rohingya in Myanmar came under attack again and thousands tried fleeing to Bangladesh. Our Family waited on the shores, brought their friends to the camp, organised medical treatment for the injured, shared food, clothing and found mosquito nets. People with so little can give so generously.
This Family were amongst approximately 700,000 Rohingya Refugees who fled the genocide by the Military Junta on 25th August 2017 to Bangladesh. They saw firsthand, atrocities being committed, and their home and village destroyed. They had to flee through rough terrain, facing other dangers along the way, until they reached the shores of the River Naf. After several days they were able to arrange passage across the River to Bangladesh where they eventually were placed in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp.
This Camp has over one million refugees and is the largest and most dangerous refugee camp in the world. The Family has endured seven years of harsh, squalid conditions in the camp. They are recognised as Stateless Refugees by the UNHCR. In Bangladesh, they face permanent exclusion and are denied the right to work, hold a bank account, own property, or have their children attend official schooling. Returning to Myanmar is not possible as the government does not recognise ethnic Rohingya as citizens.
The Refugees endure life in flimsy shelters constructed of bamboo and plastic sheeting, precariously perched on steep eroded hillsides. Fire is a constant danger coming from cooking fires or arson, Once started the fires quickly get out of control devastating large areas of the camps and causing loss of life. The extreme climate conditions exacerbate their suffering . During the monsoon season heavy rains flood the camps and shelters destroying possessions and food while the mudslides take lives, Sanitation is abysmal, clean drinking water is scarce and diseases runs rampant, This year’s monsoon season has caused a huge increase in Dengue Fever cases, The NGO Clinics can only do so much to help. Food is always scarce as they only receive AU$10 per person per month through the World Food Programme. Gangs have infiltrated the camps, they kidnap men, women and children for human trafficking, financial gain and to take them back to use as fighters for the Military Groups in Myanmar. If attempts are made to resist, refugees are murdered or mutilated.
We cannot provide any identifying names or photographs of our Family as this would put the Family’s lives at risk.
A phrase we often hear: “Life in Cox’s Bazar is a constant struggle for survival”.
This narrative is just a fragment of their life story.
Please help to change their lives.
Mary Cotter
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Australia
The Rohingya Refugees, including our family, living in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp are amongst the most unknown and forgotten refugees in the World. Out of a million Refugees in Cox’s Bazar, this family has been given a chance for a new life. They already have sponsors in Canada, and $20,000 of the $45,000 needed to support them has already been donated. We need your help to raise the remaining $25,000.
We are asking you to donate now to this appeal. Whether a small or a large amount you will help a Rohingya family of six (Mother, Father, Son and three Daughters) escape the dangers and misery of life in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp and give them a new life of safety and security in Canada.
Most importantly we already have Canadian Sponsors (The Group of 5) who are ready and waiting to help this family on arrival. The money raised goes towards paying for accommodation, clothing, schooling, medical expenses etc. The funds will be held in a secure bank account and co-managed by members of their sponsorship team and will be disbursed under guidelines provided by the Canadian Immigration Department. The Sponsors will also guide and support the family to meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of their new life in Canada.
The Sponsors are already sponsoring the eldest son, Mohammed. Through video chats they came to know and like the family and offered to sponsor the rest of his family.
Such a wonderful life changing opportunity could not be missed.
While Mohammed is waiting for his application to be processed, he has been teaching his family English which he speaks quite well. His Sisters are making good progress, the others are a little slower although his Father now recalls some of his English writing skills. Mohammed’s Father and Brother have stated that they would like to study but their main concern when reaching Canada is to support the family and in time become active in their community. The three Sisters all want to take whatever educational opportunities are offered. They all have dreams of wanting to study and to go onto having careers which will help others.
We do know that they are community minded. They belong to refugee-led Camp Groups who arrange urgent blood donations for the NGO Clinics and the males escort other sick refugees to appointments. They have organised for donations of food to be given to refugees who had nothing after the floods. In August of this year the Rohingya in Myanmar came under attack again and thousands tried fleeing to Bangladesh. Our Family waited on the shores, brought their friends to the camp, organised medical treatment for the injured, shared food, clothing and found mosquito nets. People with so little can give so generously.
This Family were amongst approximately 700,000 Rohingya Refugees who fled the genocide by the Military Junta on 25th August 2017 to Bangladesh. They saw firsthand, atrocities being committed, and their home and village destroyed. They had to flee through rough terrain, facing other dangers along the way, until they reached the shores of the River Naf. After several days they were able to arrange passage across the River to Bangladesh where they eventually were placed in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp.
This Camp has over one million refugees and is the largest and most dangerous refugee camp in the world. The Family has endured seven years of harsh, squalid conditions in the camp. They are recognised as Stateless Refugees by the UNHCR. In Bangladesh, they face permanent exclusion and are denied the right to work, hold a bank account, own property, or have their children attend official schooling. Returning to Myanmar is not possible as the government does not recognise ethnic Rohingya as citizens.
The Refugees endure life in flimsy shelters constructed of bamboo and plastic sheeting, precariously perched on steep eroded hillsides. Fire is a constant danger coming from cooking fires or arson, Once started the fires quickly get out of control devastating large areas of the camps and causing loss of life. The extreme climate conditions exacerbate their suffering . During the monsoon season heavy rains flood the camps and shelters destroying possessions and food while the mudslides take lives, Sanitation is abysmal, clean drinking water is scarce and diseases runs rampant, This year’s monsoon season has caused a huge increase in Dengue Fever cases, The NGO Clinics can only do so much to help. Food is always scarce as they only receive AU$10 per person per month through the World Food Programme. Gangs have infiltrated the camps, they kidnap men, women and children for human trafficking, financial gain and to take them back to use as fighters for the Military Groups in Myanmar. If attempts are made to resist, refugees are murdered or mutilated.
We cannot provide any identifying names or photographs of our Family as this would put the Family’s lives at risk.
A phrase we often hear: “Life in Cox’s Bazar is a constant struggle for survival”.
This narrative is just a fragment of their life story.
Please help to change their lives.
Mary Cotter
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