{"id":75436,"date":"2025-12-01T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/01\/bangladesh-rohingya-refugees-aid-health-funding-cuts-infants-malnutrition"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:15:32","slug":"no-soap-no-tents-no-food-rohingya-families-fight-for-survival-as-aid-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75436","title":{"rendered":"No soap, no tents, no food: Rohingya families fight for survival as aid plummets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world\u2019s largest refugee camp  depend on aid \u2013 and cuts mean new arrivals are not even given shelter<\/p>\n<p>The light of a single lightbulb powered by a backup generator lasts just long enough for Noor and Sowkat to see the faces of their newborn babies for the first time. The two children were born on the same night on a crumbling foam mattress, its corners ripped to shreds by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/02\/threadbare-facilities-high-mortality-cats-in-the-corridors-the-realities-of-life-for-new-rohingya-mothers-in-coxs-bazar\">thousands of women who have gone into labour here<\/a> in Camp 22\u2019s makeshift delivery room.<\/p>\n<p>The newborns have just become the youngest residents of the world\u2019s largest refugee camp, in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, which is struggling to operate in the face of a <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/bangladesh\/bangladesh-rohingya-humanitarian-crisis-joint-response-plan-2025-26-funding-update-31-august-2025\">63% deficit<\/a> in humanitarian aid funding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/01\/bangladesh-rohingya-refugees-aid-health-funding-cuts-infants-malnutrition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world\u2019s largest refugee camp  depend on aid \u2013 and cuts mean new arrivals are not even given shelterThe light of a single lightbulb powered by a backup generator lasts just long enough for Noor and Sowkat to s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5091,"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":[247,327,59,393,82,494,85,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-society","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\/75436","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\/5091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75437,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions\/75437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}