Life through the eyes of a Rohingya girl in the world’s largest refugee camp

Mosharrofa is years old and lives with his five siblings and his parents in Cox’s Bazar , the largest refugee the eyes of camp in the world , where almost a million people live together in the south of Bangladesh. Her entire family had to escape certain death in her home country of Myanmar. “I was a lot younger when I came to camp. We had to cross the river to get to Bangladesh and we suffered a lot because both I and my brothers were very small. Now my father and my brothers don’t work. Our family lives off the aid given to us by different NGOs, like Educo, that work in the Rohingya fields. My mother is a housewife. “She does all the housework,” she tells us. “I am studying third grade in one of the camp schools. When we lived in Myanmar, my parents were able to pay for my studies, so when we came here they encouraged me to continue studying and achieve my dream of becoming a doctor to help others. But I don’t know if I will be able to do it as a Rohingya girl, because there is no secondary school in the camp.

What life is like for Mosharrofa in Cox’s Bazar

His day starts very early and ends late. Make the most of the day: “I get up at in the morning every day. I take a bath and go to Maktab (Arabic word for primary school) at to learn the Quran. I come home at and help Denmark WhatsApp Number Data my mother with the housework. Then I go to school at and study there until When I return home I have lunch and visit Maktab again where I study until After I get home I help my mother with her work and then I go to play with my friends. At I go to see my teacher to take private lessons. There I read Burmese, English and mathematics. I get home at :, clean, have dinner and go to sleep at ” Mosharrofa is part of our teenage club , in fact, she is the team leader: “I call all my friends to come to the Educo training sessions. We are members in our teenage group: ten boys and ten girls.

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The young woman claims to have no problem living in the camp

Although at night she does not leave her house because she says she is afraid. “My playing time ends when I come home from school, but whenever I have time in the afternoon I try to play with my friends. Together we play Cambodia WhatsApp Number List doll games, jump rope or hide and seek. I really liked Myanmar because I could play there on a spacious field. My friends and I could go everywhere. But here in the camp there is no space, the houses are very small.” And, although he has adapted to living in the camp, he admits that he misses his country a lot : “I used to go to school, visit my grandparents’ house with my mother, go to the market with my father and spend time playing with my friends in the field. I really want to go back to Myanmar because our relatives live very far away in the camps, so it’s not always possible to visit them. But in my country my family and my relatives used to all live together in the same area.

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