“Two days ago, I met a pharmacist, a middle-class family, who left everything behind. “Can you imagine how your life would be if you left everything behind?” said Rosario, an Italian Red Cross delegate who is part of the Japanese Red Cross team in Cox’s Bazar. Men at the group say they are troubled because they couldn’t protect their families from violence at home or as they fled, and they can’t support them in Bangladesh, where they are not allowed to work. Psychosocial delegate Rosaria Domenella runs a men’s group in a simple open-plan bamboo and tarpaulin structure a few metres away from a busy dirt road in Hakimpara camp. Yet men are often overlooked in this crisis, in which 646,000 people fled to Bangladesh between 25 August and early November 2017. We have to live in the dark without solar lamps. Men can’t sleep because of the situation here. “Back home, I lived in a solid house that was beautifully decorated, but I left all my property behind. “There are a lot of difficulties with life here,” he said. Men face particular stress, says Hamid Hussein, the top community leader or head mazhi, in Hakimpara camp in Cox’s Bazar, just across the border from Myanmar. When you finally get to sleep, the nightmares come. Living under plastic and bamboo in Bangladesh, you worry about food, water, shelter, rain, dry, hot, cold, wind, the future. You lie awake thinking about the life you had in Rakhine state in Myanmar, and the violence and fear that sent you running. Posted Originally published Origin View original Open training opportunities in the humanitarian field.īangladesh + 1 more Men from Rakhine find strength in adversity Format News and Press Release Source Open job opportunities in the humanitarian field. List of organizations that are actively providing ReliefWeb with content.Ĭurated pages dedicated to humanitarian themes and specific humanitarian crises. List of alerts, ongoing and past disasters covered by ReliefWeb.
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