Fire in Rohingya camp: CARE Bangladesh responds
A devastating fire broke out at one of the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024 causing significant destruction in its wake.
Bangladesh ranks 133 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International started its operations in Bangladesh in 1949, and today is one of our largest country offices. We also work in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp.
CARE International started its operations in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1949 and today is one of our largest country offices.
Since Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, CARE International's programming has focused on:
CARE International works in Cox's Bazar, the world's largest refugee camp, which hosts hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingyas who fled from Myanmar. In addition to Cox's Bazar, CARE International works across other refugee camps to provide shelter, water and sanitation, cash vouchers, and sexual and reproductive health services.
Since 2020, CARE Bangladesh has been responding to COVID-19. Response efforts include helping to improve vaccination rates by speaking with communities and individuals to increase vaccine acceptance, and helping people who do not have access to smart phones or technology with registering and attending vaccine appointments. CARE International also trains volunteers to support vaccine registration and community awareness.
A devastating fire broke out at one of the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024 causing significant destruction in its wake.
As the full scale of the damage and needs is being assessed, CARE is concerned about a new crisis leaving more women and girls without shelter, privacy, access to medical care, and at high risk of violence.
CARE International is extremely concerned about the potential impacts to the population, especially the highly vulnerable Rohingya refugee community.
CARE, UNICEF, and the government of Bangladesh have worked to find ways to improve the health infrastructure of the country, acheiving an increase in the vaccination rate from 2% in 1986 to over 80% in 1989, and it has stayed that way ever since.
Sarah Easter, Emergency Communications Officer, CARE Germany and CARE Austria shares accounts of her visit to Northern Bangladesh, as part of CARE Austria's JANO project. Supported by the European Union and the Austrian Development Agency, it strives to change cultural and traditional gender roles and establish healthy practices and nutrition in the region.
Since July 1, 2023, CARE and our partners have reached 10.6 million people with emergency response in 57 countries. In the 5 biggest responses - Yemen, Sudan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Syria – CARE reached 6 million people.
Over seven decades, CARE Bangladesh has been a long-standing development partner for Bangladesh. Keeping gender at the core, CARE Bangladesh has partnered with local and national organizations to embark on locally led and globally scaled solutions.
A look at the refugee crisis in Myanmar and CARE International's activities in the region.
Between 25 August 2017 and now, over 700,000 people from Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh (ISCG Report, July 19, 2018), following an escalation of violence in the Northern Rakhine State from 25 August onwards.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.