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Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust®
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Office: 110 High Street,
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AMWT FUTURE PLANS
HEALTH
Assisting 50,000 people with
life-saving health services & medicines.
SHELTER & NFIS
Assisting 40,000 people with core
relief items. Construction of
temporary shelters made of
bamboo and screening.
WATER & SANITATION
WASH facilities upgrades.
SELF-RELIANCE
Providing 1,000 families (10,000
people) with multi-purpose
cash-based intervention.
REFUGEE STORIES
Beneficiary:
Fatimah Bibi
Area:
Cox’s Bazar,
Bangladesh
Age: 25
Gender: Female
In a makeshift camp in Bangladesh,
25-year-old Fatimah holds her new born
baby. Fatimah gave birth to baby Halima
in her home in Myanmar. She and her
husband Razzaq, are amongst the more
than 436,000 people who fled the
sudden increase in violence in Rakhine
State. Back home, this couple had a house
and land in their village which provided
them with a stable income. During the
outbreak of the latest violence against
innocent civilians, their house and belongings
were burnt to the ground. And
their other family members were shot.
Now, they live in a make shift camp for
new arrivals in Bangladesh. They received
treatment and food at the AMWT medical
camp. Al Mustafa has also provided them
clothes and sleeping mats.
Beneficiary:
Nurual Haque
Area:
Cox’s Bazar,
Bangladesh
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Nurual Haque, a 42-year-old shopkeeper
is one of the few men who made it here
from his village. He carried one child on
his back and another tied to his chest
and walked for 9 days without food. They
foraged for what they could in the jungle.
“We ate banana palms, and drank
rainwater from the leaves,” he said. Upon
arrival at Cox’s Bazar he was weak, dehydrated
and barely able to walk. He and his
small family are currently receiving regular
rations at the AMWT kitchen. AMWT has
also sponsored him with some seed
money to start his own small business.
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PROTECTION
Supporting new arrivals with aid and
counselling. Helping strengthen child
protection procedures, including
establishment of child friendly spaces,
and provision of special support
to unaccompanied and separated
children.
FOOD SECURITY
Community leaders
supported in
distributing food
to new arrivals.
CHAIRMANS MESSAGE
During his 7th Visit to Cox’ Bazar, AMWT Chair Abdul Razzaq Sajid commented: “It is never
easy to witness the fear and pain of human beings who have nothing in this world, yet are
treated like cattle, I have seen the suffering and deprived living conditions of the Rohingya
Muslims first-hand. Yet every person I met received me with warmth and many thanked
Al-Mustafa and its supporters for everything we have been doing. As previously I left them with
a heavy heart and a promise that we would continue to help them and pray for their safety.”
Al-Mustafa
Welfare Trust
Call 020 8569 6444
Visit almustafatrust.org

AMWT is one of a handful of Muslim charities who
continue to work inside Burma. Since 2012 AMWT has
worked to provide relief and humanitarian assistance to
internal refugees within the state of Rakhine.
THE JOURNEY FROM BURMA
BEGINS FOR 700,000
ROHINGYA REFUGEES
Imagine carrying what little remains of
your worldly possessions and walking
for six days with no food and water, that
is the reality of those who came from
Burma to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
NAIMA MOBORAK’S STORY
“I travelled through the jungle with my one
year old child without shoes, on an
empty stomach and indescribable pain
in my feet. It rained constantly making it
difficult to wade through the mud and
bushes. It took 4 days to arrive here in
Cox’s Bazar, I will never forget this
nightmare”
AL MUSTAPHA FIELD TEAM
ARRIVES IN COX BAZAR
Our team made their first visit on the
16th of September 2017, distributing
food packs to over 20,000 desperate
families who were continuing to arrive
having travelled 150km, 1 in 10 women
were said to be pregnant.
Delivery Program
• Distribute Food Packs
• Establish Food Kitchen
• Established Medical Camps
• Begin Clean Water Projects
• Distribute Core Non-Food
Items Kits
SHELTERING THOUSANDS OF
NEW REFUGEES
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are
scattered in various locations, primarily
in two registered camps, makeshift areas,
spontaneous new settlements, as well
as in host communities. New arrivals are
in dire need of shelter, food, health care,
WASH and protection.
Delivery Program
• Begin Shelter Building
• Distribute Hygiene Kits
• Distribute Tents
• Start WASH Project
• Provision of Children’s
Nutritional Supplements
SIGNING OF BILATERAL
ARRANGEMENT
The Governments of Myanmar and
Bangladesh signed a bilateral
‘arrangement’ on the return of refugees
to Myanmar. AMWT engaged both
governments and raised concerns with
the UN & UNHCR about the treatment of
repatriated Rohingya.
Delivery Program
• Launch of AMWT Mental
Health Support Service
• Nutritional Supplement
Program for Pregnant Women
• Commencement of Children
Protection Project
• Distribution of Mosquito Nets
CONDITIONS WORSEN
IN CAMPS
The AMWT team makes its fourth official
visit. The number of refugees hits a high
of 800,000, amongst whom 440,000 are
children and 1 in 10 women are either
pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
Delivery Program
• Distribution of Winter Packs
• Upgraded Shelter Kits
• New Installations of Water &
Sanitation
• Additional Sleeping Mats
A CHALLENGING START
TO THE NEW YEAR
Camps are saturated, large numbers of
children, many of them separated from
family members are identified, along with
single women and elderly. Many new
arrivals are visibly traumatised and
disoriented as a result of suffering
extreme violence and sexual abuse.
Delivery Program
• Deployment of Additional
Health Staff & Medicines
• Funding of Ambulance
& Referral Services
• Building of Emergency
Medical Facilities
• Providing Thermal Fleece Blankets
ASSISTANCE BEGINS
TO DIMINISH
Despite their hardships, there is little
sympathy towards the Rohingya in
Burma. Anti-Rohingya sentiment is
widespread, the authorities call them
immigrant “Bengalis”, the Myanmar
democracy movement remains silent and
the world begins to look the other way.
Delivery Program
• Refugee Empowerment Project
• Health & Hygiene Initiative
• Vulnerable Persons Financial
Intervention
• Supporting New Arrivals Project
TIMELINE
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DECEMBER 2017 JANUARY 2018 FEBRUARY 2018