With their homes, villages and places of worship set on fire, they had little option but to flee their ancestral home. Their treacherous journey travelling night and day through dense jungle, mud and rivers has led them to short term safety on the shores of Bangladesh.
Muslim Charity staff and volunteers in Bangladesh are on the ground now delivering key aid in the form of staple food, medicines, emergency shelter and setting up medical camps.
The emergency aid is required now to sustain the Rohingya and treat the elderly and injured. We will provide clothes and hygiene kits to a people who have had their whole lives either burned, looted or left behind.
The Muslim Charity team have witnessed the ‘rivers’ of people that are flooding into the unofficial camps and road sides. People have no option but to make the hills and forests their homes by using the trees and leaves as shelter. They have heard first hand testimony of the violence, cruelty and atrocities carried out on young women and how their fathers would hide them in the jungle each night hoping that they will not get kidnapped and raped.
