ASB Indonesia and the Philippines – Newsletter (December 2017)

By seeing a single picture of a Rohingya refugee camp in the Cox’s Bazar area, Bangladesh, many problems can be identified. But this is only the surface of an iceberg. Underneath the iceberg are issues that can’t be seen, for example, hidden population, such as persons with disabilities and older persons. Axel Schmidt and Annie Sloman,
deployed from ASB Indonesia and the Philippines to do a rapid assessment of age and disability inclusion in Bangladesh, identified that in addition to the poor conditions of the refugee camps, there are very limited awareness of the rights and needs of persons with disabilities and older persons.

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