Published: 03:42 PM, 12 March 2024
Collaboration of BDRCS-QRC-TRC Livelihood Project for Rohingya Women launched
With a view to empowering Rohingya women with essential skills and resources, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), in collaboration with Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and Turkish Red Crescent (TRC), has launched a livelihood project.
The objective of the project is to enhance capacity building and strengthen community resilience through comprehensive livelihood training and grant support.
The project was inaugurated on Monday (March 11, 2024) at Kizilay (Red Crescent) village of Camp 17 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya. By empowering displaced women from Myanmar with valuable skills and resources, the project seeks to contribute to their long-term socioeconomic safety and security.
Amid the prolonged crisis facing the Rohingya community, the government emphasizes the importance of skill development for vulnerable refugees. In response, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Qatar Red Crescent and Turkish Red Crescent have joined hands to implement a project that will reach out to more than a thousand women.
These women will receive skill development training in areas such as sewing, poultry farming, homestead gardening, and fishing net making.
In addition to skill development training, beneficiaries of the project will also receive non-food item (NFI) grants as relief support. These grants will enable them to continue supporting their families with the knowledge gained from the training. Thus overall, the project aims to assist over a thousand families, providing them with the necessary tools to build a better future.Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Qatar Red Crescent and Turkish Red Crescent have come together in a collaborative effort to address the needs of the Rohingya community.
Deputy Director of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Abdul Karim said that since 2017, BDRC has been providing Rohingyas with shelter, Wash, netting, poultry, agriculture plan and various skills support with the help of donors.Through this they will be able to go back to their own country and become self-reliant.
Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) Bangladesh Mission Head of Programmes Mohammed Thabet Safi said, inaugurating this Livelihood Project with our partners from BDRCS and turkish red crescent. The goal of this project is to train around 1100 women from host and guest community in the camp 17,14 and 19 to develop their skills and give them hope and power to improve them selves and Families future and make them feel confident and part of these communities.
Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) Bangladesh Head of Delegation Semih Pasli said, Turkish Red Crescent is implementing a wide range of projects and activities to alleviate suffering of forcibly displaced Rohingya community and host community since 2012 in partnership with Bangladesh Red Crescent. Today, we are initiating a vocational training project.
The project targets to reach out more than 1,000 women and aims to increase community resilience, socioeconomic safety and security. With the support of the Turkish Red Crescent, vulnerable women from the Rohingya community will receive training on poultry, sewing, gardening and making fishing nets.
