Rohingya refugees rebuilding after March fire
Ahead of World Refugee Day on Sunday (June 20), the world's largest refugee camps are still trying to emerge from ashes.
Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, home to Rohingya refugees was hit with a massive fire in March.
It left at least 11 people dead and tens of thousands without shelter.
Today some are still working to rebuild their homes.
Hasina Begum lost her husband in the fire.
But because she has a new home, she calls herself fortunate.
"For the last three months, we suffered a lot as my husband died in the fire. So much suffering. We were staying in a plastic temporary shelter, where we faced hot weather and rain. The whole family was staying in a small room. Now by the grace of Allah, we have a home. Now I am very happy."
The U.N.'s refugee agency estimates that 45,000 were without shelter after the fire, while 300 were unaccounted for.
It was an added trauma for many of the refugees.
The minority Rohingya fled their homes in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, following a military crackdown against Rohingya insurgents in 2017.
Now there is no telling if they will ever be allowed back.
Golam Kadir says it's difficult to live in a state of uncertainty.
"I am not well here. I always think, how can I go back to my motherland? We are very helpless people. We don't understand what [the Myanmar government's] plans are. We don't have the strength to fight them, so we are requesting the heads of states of big countries to come forward, and help us get back our country."
Nearly a million Rohingya currently live in squalid camps in Cox's Bazar.
