KSrelief project to provide safe water to 200,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh

DHAKA: More than 200,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar will have safe access to water and hygiene under a new program funded by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center.

KSrelief, the Saudi Arabian aid agency, signed a cooperation agreement with the UN’s International Organization for Migration in July to provide sustainable water and sanitation services across camps in the coastal Bangladeshi district, which has been a temporary home to most of the Rohingya who fled military violence in neighboring Myanmar.

The implementation of the $2.5 million project began on Oct. 1 and will run for 12 months, during which the IOM will install and improve critical infrastructure, including solar-powered water networks, wastewater treatment systems and washing facilities.