Help babies like Anwar*
In 2017, after mass violence against them, half a million Rohingya people fled for their lives. Today, over half a million Rohingya people are living in the world’s largest refugee camp, covering an area of just 15 square miles.
Over half are children.
They largely depend on food assistance but global food assistance was drastically cut last year from $12 to $8 per person per month. There isn’t enough food to go around and children are dying. For many, life is now a matter of surviving to the end of the day.
When seven-month-old Anwar was brought to the Concern nutrition centre by his mother, Ayesha*, he weighed less than 12 pounds. He was suffering from a stomach bug, which spread easily in the camp due to unsafe drinking water, and his weight had plummeted because he was too sick to eat. Anwar’s life was in immediate danger.
Thankfully, Anwar’s mother was able to give her baby emergency therapeutic food from Concern and put him on the road to recovery.
“If Concern does not support us, it will not be easy to get our nutrition. If this support stops, we will suffer without all the help. My child would not be able to receive nutrition like this.”
Our teams are overwhelmed by the sheer number of mothers in Cox’s Bazar coming to us for help to feed their children, who are increasingly sick and weak from hunger. Compared to the same period last year, severe acute malnutrition has increased by 24%, and moderate acute malnutrition by 41%.
“Even as new humanitarian crises are evolving in different part of the world, we still have the responsibility to this Rohingya community. We must not forget them, so they never feel as if they have no hope.” - Shahana Hayat, Director of Concern’s Cox’s Bazar Nutrition Programme.
Please, if you are able to, give a gift today to help protect more children from deadly hunger.
Thank you for your kindness and compassion.
*Names have been changed to protect the identity of individuals.
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