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YPSA starts emergency food distribution to newly displaced Rohingya people

YPSA has started emergency food distribution to newly displaced Rohingya people who are living in a temporary shelter in Ukhia Upazila, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. New influx is around 500000 and 60% of them are children. These people are in emergency need of food, shelter, hygiene and sanitation support.

At first YPSA emergency response team has enlisted hundreds of Rohingya people at the Moinnar Ghona, Balukhali, Ukhiya and gave them token to collect food from …

YPSA’s senior management team visits Rohingya refugee camps

YPSA’s senior management team led by Md. Arifur Rahman, chief executive of YPSA visited Rohingya refugee camps on 16 September, 2017 at Kutumpalong, Balukhali, Panbazar, Unchiprang under Cox’sbazar district.

Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state due to violence, murder, rape and torture. The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says 60% of the new arrivals are children. UNICEF estimates that 230,000 children have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh….

Director General and Deputy Director of NGO Affairs Bureau visit “Community Engagement in Countering Violent Extremism in Cox’s Bazar” program

Mr. Khondokar Raqibur Rahman, Director General and Mr. Shah Alam, Deputy Director of NGO Affairs Bureau, Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh have visited different activities of YPSA CEVEC Consortium on 23rd August 2017.

The team visited Leadership Development Training of Jhilongja Union Youth Forum Members at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Upazila. …

High officials from GCERF visit YPSA in Cox’s Bazar

Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) team consist of Michael Schroll, Senior Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor and Lilla Schumicky Logan, Grants Officer at GCERF visited different activities of YPSA CEVEC project during 10-11 August, 2017.

They travelled different Upazillas of Cox’s Bazar where GCERF funded activities are going on and observed different activities. They talked with change agents, members of target population…

GCERF Community of Practice Workshop held

Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) organized a 4-day workshop on “Community of Practice” at Cox’s Bazar from 14 to 17 August, 2017 where YPSA and other Principal and Sub-Recipient organizations participated. The objective of the workshop was to  provide the opportunity to deepen knowledge and share experiences among the partners of GCERF about preventing violent extremism (PVE) program in Bangladesh.  GCERF representative team consist of Mr. Michael Schroll, …

Students can play active role to prevent extremism and violence in the society – Ashek Ullah Rafique MP

A 3-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on Life Skill Education for the students was held from 21 to 23 August, 2017 at Moheshkhali Upzila Parishad Auditorium which was organized by YPSA CEVEC Consortium under the project “Community Engagement in Countering Violent Extremism in Cox’s Bazar”.

Ashek Ullah Rafique, Honorable Member of Parliament, Constituency Cox’s Bazar-2   inaugurated the 3 days ToT workshop. …