URGENT REQUEST FOR CHILDREN’S WINTER CLOTHES ON BEHALF OF UNICEF BANGLADESH – ROHINGYA REFUGEES

Bangladesh is currently responding to an unprecedented children’s emergency owing to the rapid influx of more than 607,000 Rohingya refugees since 25th August. Some 58 per cent of these arrivals are children.

Winter is now upon us and Unicef Bangladesh is desperate in need of winter appropriate clothing: SWEATERS, LONG SLEEVE T-SHIRTS, SOCKS, SHIRTS, BLANKETS AND SHOES.
The children are living in makeshift shelters, poorly constructed from bamboo and tarpaulin and most have lost the majority of their possessions when fleeing the violence. In collaboration with UNICEF BANGLADESH we are ready to organize distribution to affected children and their families in the camps. Donated items will be shipped weekly from Hong Kong to Bangladesh by partners in Hong Kong who have business in Bangladesh.

Unicef is very worried about the onset of winter and the exposure to cold weather that these refugee children will have to face. We hope, that with your support, we’re able to keep these children safe and warm this winter.

We will be collecting winter clothes at the main entrance in the mornings all this week or students can drop off their donations in Ms Darling’s classroom C402.

Thank you for your generosity.