Difficulty of meeting monthly household expenses 8% 1% somewhat difficult not difficult 91% n = 1565 “ We face great difficulties meeting our family’s monthly expenses. We need to supplement our food rations by buying additional vegetables, onions, and fish. When we were in Myanmar, we could do our own farming and we grew rice. From that we were able to earn enough for our family’s monthly expenses. But here in the camp we are suffering badly because there are no job opportunities. If we get the opportunity to do daily work, we will be able to live more easily here. - Rohingya father of four, age 25 From Rathedaung Township, living in Camp 5 very difficult SEPARATED ACROSS BORDERS: THE FAMILY OF MOHAMMAD ANUWAR Mohammad Anuwar (not his real name) is a 21-year-old Rohingya male from a large and formerly affluent Maungdaw family who previously owned a wholesale distribution company for construction materials. Mohammad and his eight siblings now live separated across numerous borders. They rely on phone and internet communication to stay in touch and maintain their family’s sense of connection. Wealthier Rohingya families are more likely than poorer families to have members abroad, due to the high cost of the journey. Mohammad lived in the camps from 2017 to 2019 and received a daily stipend for his work as an NGO volunteer. In order to pursue his education, he has been living and studying in Chittagong since November 2019. The eldest brother in the family, 40 years old, lives in Saudi Arabia. He traveled there by flying out of Bangladesh in 1999, when Mohammad was still a baby. A third brother, 28 years old, is now in Georgia, U.S.A. He arrived in the United States by way of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia, a journey that spanned six years, from 2012 to 2018, and included three years in an Australian detention facility. The second-eldest brother, a 39-year-old lawyer, is unable to practice law in the camps and has worked intermittently as a paid NGO volunteer. He previously worked as an election volunteer in Rakhine State and traveled to Yangon twice for trainings. The brothers’ parents and four married sisters still live in the camp they fled to from Myanmar in 2017. It is more common for sons than daughters to risk the journey out of the camps. A fourth brother currently lives in Malaysia, which he reached in early 2019 after living for a year and a half in the refugee camp. He now has UNHCR status.