{"id":22053,"date":"2020-08-25T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/25\/coronavirus-has-made-every-day-a-struggle-to-survive-amid-the-squalor-of-coxs-bazar"},"modified":"2020-08-25T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:53:12","slug":"coronavirus-has-made-every-day-a-struggle-to-survive-amid-the-squalor-of-coxs-bazar-farid-alam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22053","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus has made every day a struggle to survive amid the squalor of Cox&#8217;s Bazar | Farid Alam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once I flew kites and dreamed of being a teacher. Now it\u2019s hard to see a better future for me or my family<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/06\/bangladesh-build-worlds-largest-refugee-camps-800000-rohingya\">Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh<\/a>, it was a very different place. I remember as a child laughing and flying kites with my friends. Kites are not flying around our camps any more. There is little laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Just months ago, we lived in a different world. We used to go outside a lot, seeking freedom from our little bamboo and plastic homes. But with Covid-19 we cannot. Often we are told to stay inside. It\u2019s hot and cramped, with nine of us in one room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/25\/coronavirus-has-made-every-day-a-struggle-to-survive-amid-the-squalor-of-coxs-bazar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I flew kites and dreamed of being a teacher. Now it\u2019s hard to see a better future for me or my familyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen I was born in Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh, it was a very different place. I remem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1069,59,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053\/revisions\/22054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}