from UNHCR via ReliefWeb
The main street of this camp is bustling with lively commerce – a restaurant under a colourful awning, a boy selling cucumbers, a mobile sweet shop and an open-air barbershop with all four chairs occupied by customers.
Flash back two years and Nayapara was one of the worst refugee camps in the world. Refugees lived in squalid, flimsy hovels years past their expiry date. With no proper medical care, little education and no skills training, refugees languished in idleness. Despair reigned.
"It was really one of the worst camps I have seen in my career with UNHCR," observed Asia Bureau Director Janet Lim. "Two years down the line things have changed quite a lot," she said on a visit to Nayapara earlier this month.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Life's getting better for refugees in Bangladeshi camps
