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Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the ICRC helps people affected by violence, promotes IHL, enhances physical rehabilitation services and supports the Bangladesh Red Crescent. With the Bangladesh Red Crescent, we reunite missing people with their families and facilitate the repatriation of migrants.

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In numbers

As of June 2020

  • 150,000
    people (30,000 households) received food parcels in 64 districts in Bangladesh.
  • 624
    displaced families receive biweekly (one-month ration) food rations in Konarpara camp.
  • 1,740
    families from host community in Tumbru received emergency food parcels under lockdown.
  • 6,006
    families from three Chittagon Hill Tracts districts (2,000 families from each district) received emergency assistance as an unconditional cash grant.
More facts & figures
  • 68
    prisons supported with material aid such as hand rub, surgical masks, hand sanitizer, chlorine, etc. With the help of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, 89,000 people benefited in our response to control spread of infection in detention facilities.
  • 750
    personal protective equipment kits donated in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox's Bazar