<br /> <p>Ahead of monsoon season, the UN World Food Programme in late April and early May helped Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, prepare their camps for potential flooding.</p><p>The preparations included efforts to secure food distribution points, e-voucher shops, and roads, and to stabilize slopes in high-risk areas and clear drainage canals, the WFP said.</p><p>The organization also said it urgently needed $213 million “to feed more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar for the rest of 2018.” A quarter of those 800,000 refugees were at serious risk of flooding and mudslides and an estimated 30,000 refugees would be relocated to hills, valleys and steep slopes, the WFP said.</p><p>This footage, provided by the WFP, first shows children playing and walking through an area the organization said became flooded after just a few hours of rain. Also shown are Rohingya refugees, paid by WFP, clearing high ground, fields, and building a logistics base the WFP said would “help respond to the upcoming heavy rains and storms.”</p><p>“Hundreds of Rohingya workers are involved every day in Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) activities in exchange for a cash transfer that also improves the food needs of their families,” the WFP said. Credit: World Food Programme (WFP) via Storyful</p><br />
