When families are forced to flee, women and girls face unique dangers, including higher rates of gender-based violence, isolation, early marriage, and limited access to healthcare. Inside the Rohingya camps, BRAC runs safe spaces designed specifically for women and girls, offering three-month programs built around community, skills, and women's rights, with caseworkers, counselors, and midwives always available.
Somina, a 25-year-old mother of three who fled Myanmar nine years ago, completed one of these programs. "It feels safe here, surrounded by women," she said. "I feel confident, at peace. These women are all my friends." For women navigating displacement, safety and friendship are not small things. They are everything.
This video is part of A week with the Rohingya, our campaign running June 12–18 in recognition of World Refugee Day. Each day, our colleagues Uday and Sidra are taking you inside a different aspect of daily life in Cox's Bazar, home to the world's largest refugee camp, where over a million Rohingya refugees shelter. BRAC has the largest presence of any NGO in these camps, and 100% of gifts to this campaign go directly to BRAC programming there.
Follow along as our colleagues take you inside the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar for A Week with the Rohingya.
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100% of gifts go directly to the Rohingya refugee camps, where BRAC has the largest presence of any NGO and invests directly in Rohingya-led solutions.
