Bamboo and tarpaulin shelters covering the hillsides of a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar
Rohingya Crisis Appeal

A nation without a country.
Not without hope.

One million people are living in bamboo and tarpaulin on the hills of Cox’s Bazar — stateless, unable to work, unable to go home. Your gift reaches a family there today.

“The believers, in their mutual love, mercy and compassion, are like one body — when one part of it suffers, the whole body feels it.” Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · Bukhari & Muslim
Registered Canadian charity
The scale of the crisis

A million people. One long emergency.

Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your gift moves through trusted partners inside the camps — reaching the families who need it most.

1 million+
Living in the camps
the world’s largest refugee settlement
9+ years
Stranded in exile
an emergency that became a way of life
Half
Are children
many have never known a home
100%
Goes to the frontline
your gift funds aid, not overhead
Bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelters stretching across the hills of Cox's Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — bamboo and tarpaulin as far as the eye can see.
What life looks like

In Cox’s Bazar, getting through the day is the whole day.

Home to nearly a million people with nowhere else to go and no country to return to.

More than eight years on, they remain stateless — unable to work, to leave, or to go home. The world has moved on. Their hardship hasn’t — and it turns with every season.

A child trying to stay cool inside a sweltering bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelter in summer
01 · SUMMER

The tarpaulin turns each shelter into an oven.

Temperatures climb past 40°C inside walls built to shed rain, not heat.

A flooded, muddy lane between shelters after a monsoon landslide in the camp
02 · MONSOON

Hillsides slide away and every lane turns to mud.

Floods and landslides take shelters, latrines and water points with them.

A family wrapped in blankets against the cold inside a thin-walled shelter in winter
03 · WINTER

The thin plastic walls do nothing against the cold.

Nights drop sharply, and a single blanket is the difference for a whole family.

Ways to give

Every need has a name. Choose the one you’ll carry.

Six programmes running inside the camps right now. Every gift goes straight to a Rohingya family — and every one is tax-receipted in Canada.

Water

Hand Pump Installation

A deep-bore hand pump gives an entire block a safe, permanent source of drinking water — and ends the daily walk to a contaminated one.

$250 USDClean water for a block
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Food

Food Basket Distribution

Rice, lentils, oil and essentials — a full month of meals handed directly to a family at their shelter, with every delivery logged.

$40 USDA month of food for a family
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Health

Hygiene Kits Distribution

Soap, detergent, toothpaste and dignity items. In a camp this dense, hygiene is the first line of defence against a disease outbreak.

$35 USDSoap, essentials & care
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Winter

Blanket Distribution

Thick winter blankets delivered before the cold sets in. Behind thin plastic walls, this is what stands between a child and a freezing night.

$40 USDWarmth for one family
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Education

Educational Materials

Books, stationery and a school bag for a child who has never seen a classroom. A generation is growing up in these camps — this is their way out.

$50 USDOne child’s school kit
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Orphans

Clothes for Orphans

A new set of clothes for a child with no parents to provide them — handed over by name, at the shelter where they live.

$60 USD/MonthClothing for one child
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Prefer to give once and let us direct it where it’s needed most? Make a general donation — or Teacher $100/month, Widow and Orphan $60/month. All are in USD.

From the field

This is what your last gift looked like.

Food packs and gift packs delivered inside the camps at Cox’s Bazar — unloaded, logged and handed over one family at a time by our team on the ground.

A truck loaded with Care Beyond Borders food packs arriving at the Camp 05 gate in Cox's Bazar
A full truck arrives at Camp 05. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
A group of Rohingya children each holding a CBB gift pack after a distribution
Every child leaves holding their own pack.
A smiling Rohingya girl holding a Care Beyond Borders food pack box, other children beside her
A month of meals, carried home by the eldest child.
A young Rohingya girl holding a Care Beyond Borders gift pack
Handed over by name, at the shelter where she lives.
A Care Beyond Borders team member handing a food pack and cooking oil to a Rohingya man at the distribution point
Rice, lentils and oil — placed in his hands, not posted to a list.
A young boy carrying his gift pack away through the camp
Carrying it home through the camp lanes.
An elderly Rohingya man carrying a sack of rice on his shoulder and a bottle of cooking oil, holding a thank-you card
Rice on one shoulder, oil in one hand, thanks in the other.
A long line of families waiting at the distribution point, each holding a gift pack
Widows, orphans and the newly displaced are first in line.
Two porters carrying Care Beyond Borders food pack cartons on their shoulders into the camp
The last stretch is done on foot, carton by carton.
A CBB team member handing a gift pack to a child at the distribution point
Our team at the distribution point.
A girl walking home with her gift pack and a bottle of water
On the way home, pack in hand.
A boy at the front of the queue with packs stacked behind him
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
A girl holding her gift pack in front of the distribution banner
Distribution day in the camps.

Photographed by our team in Cox’s Bazar. Distributed with the consent of the families shown.

Where your money goes

Your gift doesn’t stop at the border. It reaches a family in the camp.

Follow the path your donation takes — from trusted local partners to the hands that need it most.

1

Sourced close to the camps

Wherever we can, supplies are bought near Cox’s Bazar — so aid arrives fast and supports the local economy.

2

Carried by people we trust

Vetted local partners who work inside the camps every day and log every delivery.

3

Handed straight to families

Delivered by hand to the shelters and blocks where families are living right now.

4

Reaching those with no one else

Widows, orphans, the elderly and the newly displaced are first in line.

Givers like you

You won’t be giving alone.

Every name below chose to act today. Add yours, and another Rohingya family gets through the week.

No season is gentle here

One gift. One family. One shelter that holds — all year round.

Summer turns the shelters into ovens. The monsoon brings floods and knee-deep mud. Winter cuts straight through the plastic walls. Through all of it, the difference is you.

Who you give with

Care Beyond Borders (CBB)

Care Beyond Borders is a registered Canadian charity. We get urgent help to families in crisis through trusted partners already on the ground. For the Rohingya, that means food, shelter, clean water, healthcare and a path back to school — reaching real families in the camps of Cox’s Bazar. Every donation is tax-receipted in Canada.

Registered charity
Canada · 72517 8552 RR0001
Tax receipt
Issued for every eligible gift
Reaching Cox’s Bazar
Through trusted humanitarian partners
Rohingya Appeal$35 feeds a family for a month
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