IOM Launches Livelihoods Project for Returning Migrants and Host Communities in Cox's Bazar | International Organization for Migration
Capacity Building Cox’s Bazar – The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bangladesh harder than any tropical cyclone. Instead of uprooting trees and hurling powerful tides from an angry sea, what’s been uprooted are entire livelihoods—as well as the families trying to survive in one of the world’s most crowded countries. Returning migrants and host communities in the southernmost district of Bangladesh are feeling the worst of the onslaught. There, some 700,000 people have lost their source of income, just since the mid-March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Almost one year later, most have limited acc...
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