Our partnership with Tearfund

In the world’s largest refugee settlement at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, there are nearly a million Rohingya refugees living in abject poverty and overcrowded makeshift camps. In addition to horrible weather conditions, COVID-19 increases the immediate need for help. The refugee settlements are in such poor conditions, threatening the livelihoods of all that reside there.

One Day’s Wages is partnered with Tearfund to help people in the most vulnerable communities to stay one step ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak. Their work focused on awareness-raising and coronavirus prevention by: sharing life-saving health information about social distancing, handwashing, and other prevention methods, distributing sanitation kits with soap, masks, and bleaching powder, and providing emergency food and nutrition assistance for the most vulnerable. Through this partnership, they will be meeting the needs of the people who are most vulnerable during health emergencies, such as people with disabilities, women-headed households, ethnic minorities, transgender individuals, day laborers, and people who rely on others for their basic needs. Even before the first case was detected, Tearfund has been working with its partners to respond to the crisis and has a long-standing history in Bangladesh.