Tag: Rohingya refugee

Play and Art Therapy Improve Wellbeing and Preserve Culture in World’s Largest Refugee Camp

A team from the Monash Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) has found that simple activities such as play therapy and art have proven powerful not only for improving the mental health and wellbeing of Rohingya women and children but also for preserving their traditional culture. Located in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee camp…


Several Dead, Thousands of Homes Burn as Fire Sweeps Rohingya Camp in Bangladesh: UN

DHAKA—A huge fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people, officials and witnesses said, in the worst blaze to hit the settlement in recent years. Video and photographs showed a blaze ripping through the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar. Black smoke billowed over…