Finding Refuge

Children have escaped persecution, but they can’t
outrun the latest threat.

The main idea in this article is about the monsoon season causing flooding
in Bangladesh were the refugees are. The main people that are talked
about in this article are the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees
who have escaped Myanmar from persecution. The refugees are now in
Bangladesh and are now at risk from the raging storms that are hammering
the region.

In the past week a three year old boy has been the first death of
Bangladesh's monsoon season. The three year old boy lived with his family
in there makeshift shelter, by a mud wall. The three year old boy was
crushed in his sleep and his mother was badly injured when the mud wall
collapsed. Since then another two people have been killed.

For many weeks thousands of refugee families have been preparing for
the monsoons. The families only have little shacks that are clinging to hills,
with just blue tarpaulin to keep them safe and dry. The makeshift city goes
on for kilometres. Not even the shelters on higher ground are safe from the
torrential rain. Even the shelters that have been strengthened are unlikely
to survive the outrageous high winds. It is very likely that a tropical cyclone
will strike the region.  

 

The potential for disease outbreak is very high. Already, almost 19,000
refugees are living in high risk areas and have been relocated to safer land,
and another 18,000 to be relocated by the end of the month.

The torrential rain also causes problems for agencies that are trying to
deliver life-saving humanitarian aid. This is one of the solutions that have
been tried.

Out of the one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, around
half of them are children. They have escaped persecution, but the still
remain in desperate   need of protection.

It made me think that lots of children refugees are at risk of dying every day from the
monsoon season. This text made me feel sad because there has already been three deaths.
I also felt lucky because I am not at risk from mud slips and flooding every day.

My life is similar or different to the children in the text in that :

Similarities	Differences
We are both kids We both need food and shelter	I am not a refugee I live in the country I choose to live in.

Some solutions that I have thought about to help the children who are Rohingya refugees
living in Bangladesh are move them to a island that does not have monsoon season.
With better shelters, fresh food and fresh, good water.