Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
This crowdfund was originally developed to help Rohingya widows and children who fled Myanmar since October 2016. Since the 25th August 2017 there has been a further stream of traumatised and desperate refugees pouring in to Bangladesh to escape the slaughter and atrocities carried out by the Myanmar army and Rakhine monks. Many of these refugees are also widows and children, living without adequate shelter, food or water in appalling circumstances. Families are exposed to disease and malaria. Many children are doing hard physical labour to try to get money for food, while other children beg door to door or on the roadside. Many of the children have no clothes, let alone blankets to keep warm at night.
All funds raised go directly to help needy widows and children – both recent arrivals and those who fled in late 2016 but are not entitled to any aid – by providing food, shelter, blankets, mosquito nets and clothing. A wonderful team of trusted Rohingya refugee volunteers are working hard to build and repair huts and provide for the new refugees with your help.
More than 620,000 Rohingya people have been forced to flee from horrific violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh. More than 350,000 of these refugees – more than half – are children. Many are orphans. All have witnessed or experienced savage violence and brutality. Many men were slaughtered, houses burnt to the ground – even with children locked inside. Women – some heavily pregnant – and girls were gang-raped by military police. Those who survived were left homeless and terrified, forced to flee for their lives, leaving everything behind them. Many of these were widows whose husbands and sons had been murdered in what has been described as ethnic cleansing and even genocide. They travelled long distances on foot to find safety. Some of these people swam the mile-wide river between Myanmar and Bangladesh while others poured into boats in an attempt to seek safety in makeshift camps along the river.
Asmar Bagam, fled to Bangladesh after her parents were burnt to death in their home by the Myanmar military. “We barely have enough food to survive,” says Mohseni, a 22-year-old Rohingya mother. “If we have a meal once, we don’t know when we can have the next one. Feeding my children is my main concern.”
Hasna Aktar was raped by Military Police while nearly 9 months pregnant. Her husband deserted her and she fled to neighbouring Bangladesh with her children.
Solama Khatun is a widow with four children. She has no money to feed or clothe them. Her five year old son is visually impaired after a bomb blast in Myanmar damaged his eyes. There are many similar stories.
Every day is a nightmare of hunger, thirst, cold nights and mornings, hot days, mosquitoes, muddy, dirty and barren landscape, where life appears hopeless.
Rohingya refugees are in Crisis now!
We are focusing particularly on the widows and children who have no supporting family and are the most vulnerable people in the camp.
We hope to raise money to buy the most urgent supplies.
These are plastic sheets for roofing to keep the water out or complete huts for those without any shelter, a blanket for each adult and child, mosquito netting for each hut, warm clothes for the children and elderly, and some water and food for each family for the next month.
It’s a huge problem but with your help we CAN make a difference. We may not be able to help all those in need, but for those we CAN help it will make a huge difference. At the moment, many feel completely without hope. We want to provide repairs to the huts and build new huts for the new arrivals so that these women and children are sleeping under shelter; blankets for each woman and child so they are warm at night; mosquito netting – 2 pieces for a small family, 3 pieces for a larger family so they are safe from malaria; clothes if possible; and food and clean water so that children do not need to beg.
You can join us
We are refugee advocates who became heartbroken at the plight of Rohingya people in Myanmar and then in the camps in Bangladesh, particularly single women and children in the makeshift camps. After we saw the devastation of Cyclone Nora and the subsequent flooding, we had to do something. This became even more urgent with the desperate influx since August 25, 2017. We hope you will feel the same way. We are hoping to raise $12,000 to provide plastic sheeting for roofs, bamboo, labour, mosquito nets, food and clothing. We will provide for as many women and children as the money will stretch to. $50 will buy one plastic sheet for roofing $10 will buy one mosquito net … $30 will buy 3 nets for a family $10 will buy a blanket … $60 will buy blankets for a family of 6 $15 will buy a set of clothes for one person $20 will pay for bamboo, wood, rope and labour to mend a hut $100 will feed a family of 6 for a month …. $25 will feed them for a week $350 will provide roofing, repairs, mosquito nets, blankets, and clothing for a family of six You could also consider ongoing support for a family. We can introduce you and arrange photos and information. Contact us for further info.
Thank you for helping us, Helen and Lindy.
Sonia Shields
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Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
This crowdfund was originally developed to help Rohingya widows and children who fled Myanmar since October 2016. Since the 25th August 2017 there has been a further stream of traumatised and desperate refugees pouring in to Bangladesh to escape the slaughter and atrocities carried out by the Myanmar army and Rakhine monks. Many of these refugees are also widows and children, living without adequate shelter, food or water in appalling circumstances. Families are exposed to disease and malaria. Many children are doing hard physical labour to try to get money for food, while other children beg door to door or on the roadside. Many of the children have no clothes, let alone blankets to keep warm at night.
All funds raised go directly to help needy widows and children – both recent arrivals and those who fled in late 2016 but are not entitled to any aid – by providing food, shelter, blankets, mosquito nets and clothing. A wonderful team of trusted Rohingya refugee volunteers are working hard to build and repair huts and provide for the new refugees with your help.
More than 620,000 Rohingya people have been forced to flee from horrific violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh. More than 350,000 of these refugees – more than half – are children. Many are orphans. All have witnessed or experienced savage violence and brutality. Many men were slaughtered, houses burnt to the ground – even with children locked inside. Women – some heavily pregnant – and girls were gang-raped by military police. Those who survived were left homeless and terrified, forced to flee for their lives, leaving everything behind them. Many of these were widows whose husbands and sons had been murdered in what has been described as ethnic cleansing and even genocide. They travelled long distances on foot to find safety. Some of these people swam the mile-wide river between Myanmar and Bangladesh while others poured into boats in an attempt to seek safety in makeshift camps along the river.
Asmar Bagam, fled to Bangladesh after her parents were burnt to death in their home by the Myanmar military. “We barely have enough food to survive,” says Mohseni, a 22-year-old Rohingya mother. “If we have a meal once, we don’t know when we can have the next one. Feeding my children is my main concern.”
Hasna Aktar was raped by Military Police while nearly 9 months pregnant. Her husband deserted her and she fled to neighbouring Bangladesh with her children.
Solama Khatun is a widow with four children. She has no money to feed or clothe them. Her five year old son is visually impaired after a bomb blast in Myanmar damaged his eyes. There are many similar stories.
Every day is a nightmare of hunger, thirst, cold nights and mornings, hot days, mosquitoes, muddy, dirty and barren landscape, where life appears hopeless.
Rohingya refugees are in Crisis now!
We are focusing particularly on the widows and children who have no supporting family and are the most vulnerable people in the camp.
We hope to raise money to buy the most urgent supplies.
These are plastic sheets for roofing to keep the water out or complete huts for those without any shelter, a blanket for each adult and child, mosquito netting for each hut, warm clothes for the children and elderly, and some water and food for each family for the next month.
It’s a huge problem but with your help we CAN make a difference. We may not be able to help all those in need, but for those we CAN help it will make a huge difference. At the moment, many feel completely without hope. We want to provide repairs to the huts and build new huts for the new arrivals so that these women and children are sleeping under shelter; blankets for each woman and child so they are warm at night; mosquito netting – 2 pieces for a small family, 3 pieces for a larger family so they are safe from malaria; clothes if possible; and food and clean water so that children do not need to beg.
You can join us
We are refugee advocates who became heartbroken at the plight of Rohingya people in Myanmar and then in the camps in Bangladesh, particularly single women and children in the makeshift camps. After we saw the devastation of Cyclone Nora and the subsequent flooding, we had to do something. This became even more urgent with the desperate influx since August 25, 2017. We hope you will feel the same way. We are hoping to raise $12,000 to provide plastic sheeting for roofs, bamboo, labour, mosquito nets, food and clothing. We will provide for as many women and children as the money will stretch to. $50 will buy one plastic sheet for roofing $10 will buy one mosquito net … $30 will buy 3 nets for a family $10 will buy a blanket … $60 will buy blankets for a family of 6 $15 will buy a set of clothes for one person $20 will pay for bamboo, wood, rope and labour to mend a hut $100 will feed a family of 6 for a month …. $25 will feed them for a week $350 will provide roofing, repairs, mosquito nets, blankets, and clothing for a family of six You could also consider ongoing support for a family. We can introduce you and arrange photos and information. Contact us for further info.
Thank you for helping us, Helen and Lindy.
Sonia Shields
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