On behalf of Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative- Honored to have had the opportunity to spend time today with our Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland. A critical discussion regarding the plight of the Rohingya people, and those suffering from conflict and persecution around the world. A reminder that foreign affairs issues globally do impact us as […]
CTVNews.ca Staff Hundreds of people gathered in Toronto’s Queen’s Park on Saturday to protest the ongoing humanitarian crisis facing Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. “Nothing breaks me more inside than seeing human dead bodies lying everywhere,” organizer Huwaida Pervez-Khan told CTV Toronto. “We are all entitled to live on this planet.” Roughly 40 per cent of Myanmar’s […]
Many requests we’ve been receiving are related to education and scholarships, particularly for the Rohingya children and teenagers, who have recently been displaced and took refuge in Bangladesh. In the past few months, a lot of light has been shed on the refugee crisis in Bangladesh. Many countries and humanitarian NGOs have paid attention on […]
Youth & Sports: Engage in humanitarian service; You can make a difference. Having a main role as future assets of society, youth hold a crucial key in bringing forward-development of all nations around the world. Realizing significance of youth as role-players, we have been paying extra attention on all sensitive matters which involve youth and […]
Health-care & Sanitation The Rohingya face discrimination and barriers to health care. According to a 2016 study published in the medical journal The Lancet, Rohingya children in Myanmar face low birth weight, malnutrition, diarrhea, and barriers to reproduction on reaching adulthood.[1] Rohingya have a child mortality rate of up to 224 deaths per 1000 live births, more than 4 times […]
