Over 24,000 plastic sheets have been sent from Dubai to help shelter thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from monsoon rains and winds.
On Monday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) loaded 24,670 plastic tarpaulin sheets worth $325,644 (Dh1.2 million) stocked up in warehouses at International Humanitarian City (IHC). The load will be airlifted to help 123,350 Rohingya refugees from 4,934 families who fled the violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state to find refuge in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.
The donation flight departs today morning from the Dubai's Royal Air Wing to Dhaka then by road to Cox's Bazar where the majority of 430,000 refugees who arrived in Bangladesh in less than a month.
Refugees reside inside two official camps in Cox's Bazar, Kutupalong and Nayapara, or in schools and other public buildings converted into communal shelters.
Tuesday's flight is the third airlift of humanitarian aid UNHCR has sent to Bangladesh its Dubai stockpiles and the second flight donation made by Dubai Government.
Source: Khaleej Times
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