Nearly all of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya live in the western coastal state of Rakhine. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/AAPThe city council has given the Rohingya community a small office in a community centre in the Laisterdyke neighbourhood of east Bradford, where they can meet and organise. In October, Nijam Uddin Mohammed, general secretary of the British Rohingya Community UK, and nine others took aid to desperate families in Kutupalong, donating food, firewood and medicine from the people of Bradford. Although the vast majority of Rohingya refugees are Muslim, the donations came from every faith and none, said Mohammed. This time, if children are away from education, then my Rohingya nation will be completely disappeared slowly,” he said.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 10:52 UTC