Oxfam is responding with water, sanitation, and other essentials
Half a million people have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar since August. This unprecedented influx of refugees in a short period of time has led to a large and escalating humanitarian crisis.
The camps are not equipped to handle the surge of people. More than 70 percent of the at least 501,000 refugees are without adequate shelter, and half of them have no safe drinking water. They are in need life-saving assistance including clean drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene, and essential food and emergency supplies.
Working with local partners NGO Forum for Public Health and Coast Trust, Oxfam has reached more than 100,000 people with clean drinking water, portable toilets and sanitation facilities, and food including rice, sugar, and fortified biscuits. We are also working with the government and other agencies to make sure that new refugee camps are designed to meet humanitarian standards.
Here, you can see the conditions in which refugees in Bangladesh are living.
Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh is now home to thousands of refugees.
Men drill for water in Balukhali camp.
A group of girls collect drinking water for their families from a pump in Balhukali camp.
A father carries his son across a broken bamboo bridge at the edge of Balhukali camp in Bangladesh. Three days of heavy rains have flooded many of the areas where refugees had set up temporary shelters, forcing them to move to higher ground.
A Rohingya man carries a bag of food aid.
Mahmud, 65, is staying in a new settlement at Cox's Bazar. He has been in Bangladesh for two weeks, but this is the first time he could use a latrine.
In total, we are planning to reach more than 200,000 people. You can help us provide life-saving aid to them and many more.