Reference :
V-P-BD-E-00085
Date :
10/2017
Caption :
Cox Bazaar district. Portrait of a refugee from Myanmar who walked for a week and took a boat with her husband to cross the border.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
“I left in such a hurry I couldn't even inform my two daughters who were living in another house. Now I don’t know where my daughters are," she says.
ICRC website, photo gallery “Lost and displaced: Families in Bangladesh look for answers: Fleeing violence in Myanmar, families search for loved ones lost along the way”, 2 November 2017
“In just over two months, more than 600,000 people fled Myanmar. Their arrival in Cox Bazaar district in Bangladesh caused a large-scale humanitarian crisis which continues to escalate, putting pressure on aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of people from previous waves of violence in Myanmar.
The people arriving are living in terrible conditions in desperate need of life-saving assistance including clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, essential food items and emergency supplies.
An estimated half of the new influx are children, many of them unaccompanied or separated from their families during the dreadful journey.
The ICRC, together with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has deployed teams and volunteers in the camps to collect cases of separated families and provide them with the means to get in touch with their loved ones by offering free phone calls. […]”
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
3000x2002
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
