Our Organization
Community Rebuilding Centre (CRC) is a Rohingya community-based non-profit organization established in the refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on July 1, 2018. Currently, we operate in the refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and in Rakhine State, including IDP camps in Sittwe, Myanmar. We focus on formal education, empowerment of youth and women, and community awareness. We believe in creating grassroots changes through community-led initiatives that strengthen the capacity and leadership skills of Rohingya youth and women in the community. We collaborate and engage with leaders, individuals, and groups within Rohingya society that rebuild and empower the community in Bangladesh and Myanmar. We collaborate and advocate with the international community to preserve justice, human rights, and protect the Rohingya population. In September, 2022, Community Rebuilding Centre (CRC) was registered as a federal not-for-profit organization in Canada.
Our Mission
- Educate and empower the Rohingya community in Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Strengthen the capacity and leadership skills of Rohingya youth and women
- Protect and preserve Rohingya language, culture and history
- Advocate for justice, peace, democracy, and human rights in Myanmar
There are an estimated 400,000 Rohingya school-aged children who are deprived of formal education in the refugee camps by the Bangladeshi government. Rohingya children are vulnerable and are targeted by gangs and traffickers in the refugee camps. They are the lost generation of the Rohingya community.
Our goals of this project are to provide mental and financial support to Rohingya children, to provide counselling and education to Rohingya parents and community members, and to decrease child marriage in the Rohingya community. We have been supporting more than 100 young Rohingya girls through accessing them to school in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
In 2021, we conducted a participatory research study with 282 individual Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The research findings indicated that the successive governments of Myanmar have undertaken the policies of cultural suppression against Rohingya amounting “cultural genocide”. We are seeking to protect and preserve Rohingya language, culture and history.
In March, 2021, a massive fire that broke out in the refugee camps resulting in the loss of dozens of lives, displacing 45,000 Rohingya refugees, and causing significant damage to the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. We supported affected people providing emergency services such as food, shelter, sanitary and dignity kits and others.
Contact Us
Email: communityrebuildingcentre@gmail.com
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