Rohingya Relief Fund

The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority group in Myanmar. The estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar have been subjected to systematic persecution and grave human rights abuses by authorities for decades. Escalating violence in September 2017 has now forced 370,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh since August 25.

This week, UN officials have described this as both 'catastrophic' and a 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'.

Despite the election of a nominally-civilian government in November 2015, the new Myanmar Military has not shifted its policies of persecution of the Rohingya.

Over 100,000 live in internally displaced persons camps with no freedom of movement or access to food, water, sanitation, healthcare and education. A report released by the International State Crime Initiative at the Queen Mary University of London has concluded that the Rohingya "face the final stages of genocide".

Since 2012, Partners has been providing emergency relief to those in camps in Rakhine State as well as those fleeing violence to Bangladesh, including rice distribution, basic medical support, tarps for shelter as well as animals, seeds and fertiliser to help establish more sustainable food supply. PLEASE HELP provide life-saving relief to these vulnerable children and families and advocate for their freedom.

Partners is uniquely placed in this crisis as we have worked on the ground in Myanmar and Bangladesh with Rohingya communities for five years and have a team in Bangladesh responding now. Our team have been some of the very first providing food, shelter and medicine as we already have local relief networks in place.