The United Nations (UN) has called on the international community to provide food aid to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
UN informed this in a press release yesterday.
According to the press release, the monthly food vouchers of the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox`s Bazar are being reduced for the second time in three months from June 1. This is a 33 percent reduction in the daily ration. Each of the refugees will be given food vouchers worth only US$ 8 (Tk 840) per month. This is their only means of survival, they have no other option. In this situation, parents of Rohingya families are consuming less so that their children can eat.
The UN estimates that this cut in rations will affect the lives of around one million refugees who are dependent on food aid and have no employment opportunities or prospects for livelihood.
At the beginning of this year, the Rohingya refugees were receiving rations worth US$12 per capita per month from the World Food Program (WFP), barely enough to meet their daily needs, the United Nations says. But due to lack of funding, their per capita monthly ration was reduced to US$10 from March 1. Now it has further reduced to USD 8.
