Sanitation Inward The Rohingya Refugee Camps
The refugee camps inwards Cox's Bazar, People's Republic of Bangladesh are having to care amongst hundreds of thousands Rohingya, fleeing religious persecution inwards Myanmar. The incredible overcrowding inwards the camps has led to weather of miserable sanitation together with express wellness care. Reuters has undertaken analysis of satellite photos of the camps to assess the purpose of latrines together with H2O pumps inwards the camps together with how their distribution together with purpose mightiness outcome the well-being of those living there.
In The Rohingya Crisis: Life inwards the Camps Reuters has used recent satellite imagery to explore the give away together with placement of latrines, makeshift latrines, opened upward defecation areas together with H2O pumps. The intelligence way has identified those latrines which are also almost or also far from refugee households. It has also identified makeshift latrines together with opened upward defecation areas, which conduct maintain been built past times the refugees themselves. Many of these are located inwards dangerous areas or are also shallow together with thus pose a adventure of contaminating H2O pumps.
As to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than desperate refugees brand it from Myanmar the Kutupalong refugee military camp grows inwards size everyday. The AFP intelligence way reports that it is gear upward to solid 800,000 people, which would brand it the largest refugee military camp inwards the world.
The AFP has interviewed a give away of refugees who directly alive inwards the Kutupalong refugee camp. You tin read their stories on the KFP's Kutupalong: Rohingyas Hit Dead End interactive map. The map uses a recent satellite icon of the military camp every bit the base-map for these refugee stories. The purpose of a satellite icon is really effective inwards conveying the sheer size of the Kutpalong camp. The numbered markers on the map furnish access to the refugees interviewed past times the KFP. You tin read these stories but past times selecting the markers on the map.
