ROHINGYA CHILDREN IN BANGLADESH 9-year-old Rashida* fled Myanmar in August 2017, along with her parents and siblings. She was just five years old. Now living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, she wants to become a doctor or a teacher when she is older so that she can help others in her community. I miss my home in Myanmar. In the camps here it is very hot: there are no trees. Back home in Myanmar we had many trees around to keep us cool and we could play outside, but here we cannot. During the rainy season here, water floods our shelters and snakes and insects come inside. I go to school but the schools have been closed here for over a year now [because of the pandemic]. The school could be improved if they teach us using the Myanmar curriculum. If they use this system and have Myanmar teachers, our education will improve… it would help me to be a doctor or teacher. I am worried that if we cannot access education and study here, our life will be very dark and we will not have a future. Kamar*, 13-year-old, arrived in Bangladesh in March 2018. While he was sad to leave his home in Myanmar, he was also worried about whether he would be able to continue his studies in the refugee camp. I do not attend the learning centers run by NGOs, because they do not have formal education and they do not teach older students. They cannot provide me with what I need to receive a proper education, so I attend school at a private center that is run by Rohingya teachers, not humanitarians. They run classes using the Myanmar curriculum. Because of the pandemic, all of the learning centers have closed and Bangladesh has a long history of hosting Rohingya refugees. In 1978, some 250,000 Rohingya were forced to flee Myanmar after a violent military crackdown, while in 1991–92, around 200,000 fled the country in search of safety across the border. Most eventually returned to Myanmar. However, evidence suggests that these repatriations were we cannot continue our education. Although I still miss my home in Myanmar, not having education is the cause of my unhappiness. I would like the Bangladesh government to give us access to higher education to help children and students to fulfill our aspirations. Also, if the government and NGOs recruit Rohingya as teachers, our education, and the education we receive at the learning centers would improve. If we get education, I think our future will be bright. 3 COUNTRY BY COUNTRY SNAPSHOT 3.2 BANGLADESH 17-year-old Mohamed* fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 2017 and lives with his parents and other relatives in the refugee camp. He wants to return to Myanmar as soon as possible, but only if he can get citizenship and have equal rights to others in the country. When I first arrived I didn’t worry because I hadn’t realized yet that the lives of refugees are like animals in a zoo, but after a few days I realized everything. Everything is different here. In Myanmar, I had a wooden house but here we have only a shelter and there are no proper schools, no playground and we do not even have freedom of movement. I worry about people starting fires, about our security at night, and that we are not getting enough food. I do not go to school because my family is very poor. My father is quite old and he isn’t able to earn enough money to survive. I work at a construction site in the camp, carrying water for other people who work there. I earn about 200 taka per day, working three days per week to support my family to survive. Not being able to go to school, I feel very disappointed with my life because this is the time I should be learning. not voluntary and in both periods the government of Bangladesh allowed conditions in the camps to deteriorate, giving refugees no choice except to return to Myanmar.72 From August 2017, another violent military campaign forced more than 730,000 Rohingya across the border to Bangladesh.73 This expulsion came just under a year 13