Arakan News Agency
Hayat Foundation recently concluded a field visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh where it inspected its humanitarian projects for refugees and implemented 10 projects which benefited more than 10,000 refugees.
The director of the organization, Abdulaziz bin Mirdah said that the visit was to follow up earlier projects and also to implement new projects that will be helpful to the refugees.
He explained that the projects implemented by the organization are honoring the student those have memorized the Holy Quran and the establishment of a medical camp specially for Cataracts, also setting up another camp for circumcision and a project for food baskets and distribution of meat.
Other projects included of building huts, distribution of meals, the construction of Mosques and drilling wells.
“During the visit, we honored 60 people in the camps in Bangladesh, and this is the sixth batch. The Rohingya distinguished themselves by keeping the book of Allah and they are attached to it and they are keen on it to learn,” he said.
“In the medical camp for the removal of Cataracts from the eyes, we were able supervise more than 300 cases between examination, diagnosis and 73 cases of cataracts removal. Thanks to Allah, Hayat is the first organization to start these project. We circumcised 175 children and gave them gifts after circumcision, medicines and antibiotics until the child recovered beyond critical stage. This camp was the tenth of its kind. “
“We have distributed hundreds of baskets in the camps of Tangkhali and Balukhali, which benefited more than 200 families, and these baskets are enough for one month. We also distributed meat especially to pregnant women because the meat is full of protein, and this compensates them for what they lose during pregnancy. In this difficult environment we have distributed five cows to more than 280 families. “
“We have built more than 50 shacks for 50 families and distributed 2000 hot meals, which feed about 4,000 people. We also built mosques in the middle of the camps, benefiting hundreds,” he said.
“Among other projects we carried out was the project of digging surface, underground and barges wells to provide water for drinking and ablution in order to avoid diseases and epidemics.”
“There is an urgent need for the Rohingya refugees to use fire to cook and for other uses, especially not being able to set fire because of the lack of huts and the risk of fire,” he said. Pointing out that this batch is the sixth distribution of fireplaces and benefited 100 families Rohingya refugees.
It should be noted that in recent years, Human Rights has paid great attention to Rohingya refugees in several countries including India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and others.
