The first consignment of Unicef emergency supplies for thousands of refugee Rohingya children and their families has arrived in Dhaka. The cargo plane arrived from Copenhagen with 100 tons of supplies comprising water purifying tablets, family hygiene kits, sanitary materials, plastic tarpaulins, recreational kits for children, and other items. The supplies will provide urgently-needed assistance to the estimated quarter of a million Rohingya child refugees who are among the 429,000 people who have fled across the border from neighbouring Myanmar in recent weeks. The supplies will be delivered by truck to the southern city of Cox’s Bazar, where an expanding international response is mobilising to address the plight of the growing number of Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh. Unicef is seeking $7.3 million in additional funding for its work in southern Bangladesh over the next three months, but even more funds will be necessary as the refugee population continues to grow.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 24, 2017 11:37 UTC