No person should ever be persecuted because of their religion or culture. No one should have to struggle daily to find enough food, a place to sleep, or simply a place to exist, yet that has happened repeatedly to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. For decades they faced religious and ethnic persecution, which escalated in 2017. They were tortured and killed in Myanmar, and their homes and villages were burned to the ground.
Almost a million escaped to the town of Cox’s Bazar in nearby Bangladesh to what became, in November 2018, the largest refugee camp in the world.
ACT Alliance, a Mission & Service global ecumenical partner, is on the ground at the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp distributing humanitarian aid in the form of food, shelter materials, warm clothing, hygiene kits, safe water, and emergency medical help.
ACT Alliance also hosted the organization Clowns Without Borders to share the importance of hygiene in a fun way. The Cox’s Bazar camp is located in a floodplain; mix that with almost a million people and the result can be a variety of diseases, some of them life-threatening. Thanks to ACT Alliance, many of the Rohingya refugees are able to keep disease at bay by using the skills they were taught and the hygiene kits they received.
Through our gifts for Mission & Service, lives are truly saved every day in Cox’s Bazar camp.
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