Rohingya Orphan And Community Relief Network

About Us 

Mission: The Rohingya Orphan and Community Relief Network (ROCRN) is a Rohingya refugee–led humanitarian organization. ROCRN exists to help and provide and support immediate humanitarian relief to Rohingya orphan children education, disabled individuals, and extremely poor families living in the world largest Rohingya refugee camps. Especially to those children who have lost their parents because of violence in Myanmar in 2017 and now they face hunger, no school, sickness, and facing dangers every day. ROCRN is the safety net for those who have nowhere else to protect and support a generation at risk of being lost to hunger, illiteracy, trauma, exploitation, and despair amid the world's largest and most protracted refugee crisis. Our only goal is to provide them education, Psychosocial care, food, safe place to sleep, clothes, and love so they can grow up with hope and dignity instead of suffering.

Vision: We are a community led organization, created by Rohingya educators who live in the Rohingya Refugee Camps. As of now, we have above 200 registered Orphan and Extremely poor children. 

- We go straight the families who need help the most.  

- We find orphans and poor children through community leaders (Majhis) and neighbors.  

- We try to provide them daily food, basic, education, school materials, clothes, sanitary kit, medicine, and a safe place to stay with ensuring humanitarian standards.  

- We teach them lessons, play with them to heal their sadness, and guide them with good values.   

- We work with collaboration with authorities under the Bangladesh government rules.

-We share documents with updates with donors so everyone can see exactly where the money goes.

Background: The Rohingya people, one of the most persecuted minorities globally, have faced systematic violence, genocide, and forced displacement from Myanmar, resulting in over 1 million refugees now living in the world's largest refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. As of late 2025, approximately 1.16 million Rohingya refugees remain in 33 highly congested camps, where nearly half over 500,000–600,000 are children facing extreme deprivation. Most refugees depend entirely on humanitarian aid for survival, with 83% of households classified as highly vulnerable, 35% facing food insecurity, and many lacking any income source due to severe restrictions on movement and livelihoods imposed by Bangladeshi authorities. Poverty and hardship in the camps are acute and protracted because overcrowded bamboo-and-tarp shelters are vulnerable to floods, fires, and landslides; access to education, safe water, sanitation, and healthcare is limited; and recent massive funding cuts from international donors including U.S. and others have led to halved food rations, surging child malnutrition, around 27% increase in severe acute malnutrition admissions in early 2025, and the closure of thousands of learning centers. These conditions perpetuate cycles of disease, disability, and despair. The struggles for Rohingya children often begin in displacement many suffer from maternal malnutrition during pregnancy and lactating, leading to lifelong health impacts. Families are large and fragmented by loss, daily wage opportunities are scarce and sometimes impossible, forcing reliance on dwindling aid. Without support, many children drop out of any available learning, face exploitation, child labor, early marriage, recruitment risks, and resort to dangerous journeys like boat departures tripled in early 2025, including children.

The Need: Poverty and deprivation have long been recognized as major causes of disease, death, and disability among forcibly displaced populations. In the Rohingya context, international organizations like UNICEF and WHO describe the crisis as catastrophic, with poverty acting as a "ruthless killer" amid funding shortfalls. Large, vulnerable families in the camps struggle to cope with survival demands and the loss of parents to violence, illness, and separation leaves many children as orphans or destitute. These children often go without adequate shelter, nutritious food, education, clothing, protection, and facing heightened risks of malnutrition, trafficking, exploitation, and roaming in unsafe camp environments. Recent aid cuts have shuttered over 4,500–6,400 learning facilities, leaving up to 300,000–500,000 children including many under 12 with no access to education, exacerbating trauma, hunger, and protection violations. Orphans and children from the poorest families are hit hardest, with out-of-school rates around 41% for ages 6–18 and rising threats to their futures.

The Global Goals for Sustainable Development: One of the key targets under Sustainable Development Goal (Quality Education) is to ensure that by 2030, all girls and boys have equally access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education so they are ready for primary education, while broader goals address ending poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), good health (SDG 3), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). In the Rohingya refugee context, the burden falls on compassionate individuals, organizations, and donors who can support these highly vulnerable children in desperate need, helping them access education, protection and basic care to build resilience and prevent the loss of an entire generation.