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Add to Preferred SourcesThe UAE donated Dh7.35 million to the United Nations Refugee Agency in support of Rohingya women and children refugees in Bangladesh.
This funding aims to provide treatment for 132,000 refugees, including 78,000 women and children living in Cox’s Bazar-Bangladesh camp and its new communities.
The support will also help UNHCR and its partners reduce mortality rates linked to malnutrition and go towards monitoring and assessing the need for emergency food
The UAE’s donation will contribute towards a larger UN scheme in Bangladesh – which launched last month – to help 1.3 million individuals, including 884,000 Rohingya refugees and 336,000 host communities by the end of this year.
The Rohingya refugee crisis is the fastest growing in the world with more than 655,000 people, more than half of whom are children, forced to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine State and seek safe haven in Bangladesh since August 25.
Original source: The National
Published on 10 April 2018