We work around the clock to ensure Rohingya children and their families are supported with food, shelter, kitchen supplies, clean water, and sanitation and hygiene facilities and supplies. Our Child Safe Spaces and Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) support vulnerable children at risk or survivors of child abuse, child labor, child marriage, and trafficking. We have been providing case management services to protect at-risk and unaccompanied children who may experience abuse, exploitation, and neglect. We have established safe and inclusive learning centers with trained teachers and provide families with quality healthcare, nutritional support, and psychosocial support for trauma patients. Our programs are strengthening and expanding household and community mechanisms to support the well-being and resilience of vulnerable populations affected by the Rohingya crisis and COVID-19. 

Child Poverty

We promote youth engagement, skills development, and improved food security for vulnerable youth and host community households through a Household Economic Analysis (HEA). The analysis ensures that assistance is needs-based, equitable, and responsive to the evolving situation in the camps. Our HEA strategy combines life skills for success, resourcing families with better nutrition for a diversified diet, strengthening social cohesion through community volunteers, and disaster preparedness and climate resilience. We tailor interventions based on this understanding to address economic and social vulnerabilities by examining households’ access to food, income sources, and spending patterns. We support families in diversifying resources, avoiding harmful coping mechanisms, and enhancing self-reliance through skills training, nutrition awareness, and community-based volunteer services.

Our approach is centered on engaging youth through inclusive platforms that combine life skills, leadership, and awareness. We train, mentor, and establish gender champions so youth have the tools to be active contributors. Our youth corners are a creative space where knowledge meets imagination to engage and raise awareness in over 200,000 households. 

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Skills to Success

We provide life skills, literacy, and numeracy training so youths can engage and excel in a transforming market. Our approach encompassed cover decision-making, disaster preparedness, stress management, and positive thinking, while also instilling knowledge of gender-based violence, human trafficking, nutrition, and social cohesion. We organize literacy and numeracy courses for youth who have never attended school, equipping them with reading, writing, and mathematics competencies. Knowledge becomes a tool that empowers them to seek better opportunities, navigate risks, and challenge harmful practices. Our investment in education aims to break the poverty cycle by expanding access to learning in areas where it is limited.

Lead, Guide, and Extend Change

Our structured mentorship programs nurture leadership by developing participants' facilitation, planning, communication, and problem-solving abilities through experience. We are founded on equity through representation, with over 800 gender champions, many of whom are trained to raise awareness on gender quality, GBV prevention, and disability inclusion. These champions are also expanding access to support by raising awareness of risk and referral pathways to services.

Your Community, Your Contribution

We motivate young people to pursue purposeful work, creating more than 240,000 workdays to keep them engaged. Volunteerism enables youth to contribute through activities such as caring for children and the elderly, managing household waste, crowd management during distributions, and emergency assistance. Additionally, they can earn stipends that help meet household needs.

The Protection Zone

Our safe spaces foster a sense of belonging and a zeal for learning and creativity. We have renovated 10 youth corners and training centers to create inclusive hubs that are accessible to people with disabilities, offering training, games, arts, storytelling sessions, recreational materials, and cultural events. These spaces also serve as knowledge hubs, with an information desk providing information on health, education, GBV support, and case management.

Every Person Effective

Our interventions ensure inclusion and disability-friendly programs, with 2% of participants being persons with disabilities (PwD). Starting with accessible environments and appropriately adapted materials, we enable them to become leaders and mentors. Our activities are designed to increase their engagement and visibility, reduce stigma in the community through interactions and group activities, and empower PwD to contribute to their communities.

Ready for Response

We have trained 50 emergency preparedness and response (EPR) volunteers aged 18 to 24, who are ready to support during cyclones or other crises. By connecting them with camp-in-charge officials and humanitarian actors, we aim to build a collective that can mobilize awareness campaigns and ensure safety during emergencies. Our training has enhanced their capacity to create community preparedness by combining early warning and rapid response with risk reduction for children and families during disasters.

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)

Our WASH interventions are not limited to service delivery; we engage children, caregivers, and communities towards an ecosystem that owns and supports sustainable solutions for the camps. This community-first approach promotes ownership, enabling communities to maintain access to WASH while prioritizing children’s needs and ensuring safe services.

We continue to mobilize innovation to address shrinking funding for WASH services. Coupled with increasing climate-related disasters- cyclones, floods, landslides- and health threats such as cholera, dengue, and malaria, make WASH services essential. We have reprioritized WASH activities to support health and survival.

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Solar Solutions

We create cost-efficient, climate-resilient, and environmentally friendly desludging solutions using solar-powered systems, reducing financial constraints for communities. Our systems promote climate-resilient, scalable sanitation programs in camps and other resource-limited settings to reduce environmental impacts by eliminating fuel consumption. We installed solar-powered systems that pump water from shallow tube wells to water taps and for washing.

Not Wasting Away

We seek to reduce health risks by improving waste management by treating human waste from toilets and septic tanks, collecting household waste, and using integrated waste management to produce safe, usable end-product water and compost fertilizer. We produce high-quality materials to meet WASH requirements.

A Cleaner and Safer Community

Community engagement is the pillar of our cost-efficient programming. We have brought together 35 youth volunteers, 300 adolescent girls, 400 WASH community members, users of WASH facilities, Majhi (Rohingya community leader), Sub-Majhi, Imams (religious leaders), and other members of the local community as part of our mission. Putting children first, our child-friendly wash facilities have secure locks, a comfortable footrest, and solar lights for nighttime security. Additionally, we have installed more than 1,200 latrines and 600 gender-segregated bathing facilities to enhance protection.

Education

We want the Rohingya and the host community children to continue their education despite any crises. Our education in emergencies (EiE) provides safe, protective learning spaces through learning centers, CBLFs, and peer education, so no child is left behind. Connecting access and quality, we scale Myanmar Curriculum and Accelerated Learning pathways to bring out-of-school and over-aged learners back into structured education. 

Our holistic learning approach integrates inclusive education, social and emotional learning (SEL), and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). It provides training for teachers to mentor and deliver instruction in these areas. Community ownership and localized approaches have ensured that education remains continuous despite disruptions and resource constraints. As the education sector co-lead, we drive, coordinate, and advocate for resource mobilization to ensure children can continue learning. 

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Learning Comes Closer

Our community-based learning facilities provide access to education for children who are limited by mobility challenges, safety risks, or a lack of formal pathways. We can also ensure consistent participation by girls and children with disabilities through these facilities. Our CBLFs are built on inclusive pedagogy, accessible design, and strong community ownership to ensure education is both accessible and engaging.

Teach with Time

Education becomes an afterthought amidst crises. Our accelerated learning program (ALP) is a second chance for out-of-school and over-aged children to catch up and transition into the Myanmar Cirriculum.  We lead in designing and scaling ALPs for those most at risk of being excluded from education. Our early childhood education ensures that the youngest learners receive high-quality learning opportunities. Additionally, our CBLFs deliver play-based, culturally relevant, and psychosocially supportive activities that promote school readiness. We also work with caregivers to ensure continued learning at home.

It Takes a teacher

Motivated and dedicated teachers are the catalysts for educational success. Our peer education program enables learning when formal schooling is inaccessible. We empower readers to teach their peers in a safe environment, helping them continue their education, especially those most at risk of exclusion. Our model goes beyond academics to instill confidence and leadership. We develop the capacity of the master trainers and teachers with pedagogical skills, subject-specific knowledge, language proficiency, and learning management techniques. We also focus on engaging students through effective methods, supporting retention, and developing educators who can lead classrooms and improve learning outcomes. 

Going Beyond Rote Learning

We integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into our education initiatives to help Rohingya children develop emotional awareness, empathy, and self-regulation. Organizing play-based activities, structured routines, and caregiver engagement, we improve well-being and learning readiness. Our tools support these efforts to provide age-appropriate, hands-on resources for children to practice at home.

Teaching at a Greater Frequency

We are tuning into children’s homes to engage learners, parents, and caregivers through interactive radio instructions (IRI) that model interactive classroom teaching. Bringing education through radio allows children to continue learning when they are out of school. The radio reinforces key competencies while integrating SEL, disaster risk reduction, and community awareness. We also relay a practical teaching approach to strengthen teaching practices and improve curriculum delivery. 

Her Education Matters

We train female educators in modern teaching methods and classroom leadership to address the shortage of qualified female teachers, as educational opportunities for adolescent girls remain limited. By implementing modern teaching methods and training, our educators have increased enrollment and retention and taught girls to challenge gender norms. 

Ready to Read

We bring storybooks, comics, and educational material to children across the camps to encourage reading beyond the classroom. Our volunteers strengthen reading habits, literacy skills, and independent learning by curating books that engage learners and help them establish effective learning practices.

Child Protection

We ensure children are protected and supported through comprehensive mechanisms that combine prevention, response, and resilience building. Our community-based mechanisms, training and empowering change makers, and building the capacity of parents, caregivers, and service providers ensure substantial safeguarding for children. We work closely with government institutions, humanitarian partners, and the refugee community to create a safe and nurturing environment for every child. 
 

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Effective Administration and Authority

We provide individualized case management, referral, and follow-up services for children at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Our trained caseworkers ensure children have access to psychosocial support, mental health services, and safe community spaces. Through capacity-building and close collaboration with community leaders, we create an environment where children’s needs are identified early, addressed holistically, and their rights are respected.

Protection in All Spaces

We partner with child protection committees, adolescent groups, and change-makers to deliver comprehensive, community-led protection. Our awareness sessions, dialogues, and structured training build the capacity of caregivers and leaders to prevent harmful practices, report risk, and promote children’s well-being. Engaging youth and adolescents has increased awareness among these groups to report harmful incidents. We also raise awareness among parents, adolescents, and religious leaders on the dangers of child marriage. Our life-skills training for youth groups and advocacy empowers them to speak up against child marriage and to redirect priorities toward education.  With growing internet access in camps, we organize awareness campaigns and train adolescents and parents on safe digital practices as well as provide tools to prevent online abuse.