Accompanying Refugees and Displaced People
Protection awareness reached more than 14,000 women.
Rohingya refugees still in need
Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance
When the Rohingya Muslim minority was forced to flee military violence in their home of Myanmar in 2017, PWRDF responded, joining forces with several other faith-based NGOs. In 2019, as the Rohingya crisis became protracted, PWRDF supported ACT Alliance member Christian Aid with an allocation of $40,000. Christian Aid provided health care and WASH services to 10,418 households (26,610 individuals) in the Rohingya community in camp #15. Four water networks were upgraded to ensure an uninterrupted clean drinking water supply and 1,000 sanitary latrines were desludged to ensure access to clean toilets. The local health post provided medical consultations to 6,610 patients and locally trained community health care workers carried out 2,720 outreach visits to those who were unable to get to the health post. 20
