Updates
Bangladesh is reopening schools after 18 months of closure. Classrooms are open in 50 of BRAC’s non-formal primary schools in the host community of Cox’s Bazar. All facilities are maintaining COVID-19 safety measures, temperature checking, hand washing stations and reduced number of students per class to maintain safe distance.
While education facilities have been closed due to the pandemic, learning has continued through innovative solutions such as home-based, tele-learning, and caregiver-led education. The 'lockdown education alternative pathway' (LEAP) model combines innovative modalities to ensure that learning does not take a back seat.
Heavy rain, followed by sudden flood and landslide on 27 July swept the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, leaving seven people dead (including children) and hundreds injured. Warehouses and over half of the households in the camps were fully inundated. Electricity was disrupted in Teknaf, Ukhiya and Cox’s Bazar.
A massive fire began at the Rohingya camps, at 3:30pm on Monday, 22 March 2021. A gas cylinder has been reported as the source of fire. Thousands of families have been affected. BRAC is on the ground responding to the most immediate needs of the community; alongside water and food, tents are being installed to shelter affected people.
BRAC Responses: in Numbers
360000
people provided with shelters
160763
children supported through child-friendly spaces
24156
latrines constructed
1.2M
outpatient medical consultations made through BRAC health centres
146253
people supported through awareness activities
71789
children and adolescents registered in learning centres
160006
tree saplings planted and distributed in FDMN camps and host community
21521
psychosocial support services delivered by the skilled staff
96384
households reached with food assistance E-voucher
130297
household received vegetable seeds
Stories
September 2, 2021
