Shafika and Jhunjhuni are inseparable. Fondly named after Shafika s favourite toy from when she was a toddler, the Black Bengal follows Shafika everywhere.
The two looked very happy as they pranced towards the large playground under the bright morning sun yesterday.
In fact, that was the first thing that Shafika and most likely Jhunjhuni too noticed, when they reached Bhasan char along with other refugees from the Cox s Bazar camps. We did not have anything like this [playground] at the camps. And the roads were hilly, she said, beaming at this correspondent.
Yesterday a total of 1,776 Rohingyas arrived at Bhasan Char in the third batch while another 1,800 are expected to arrive today, said A A Mamun Chowdhury, project director of Ashrayan Project-3.