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6 WAYS THE UN IS HELPING PROTECT ROHINGYA REFUGEES THIS MONSOON

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Relocating to safer ground

According to studies from the UN Migration Agency (IOM), an estimated 120,000 people in Cox’s
Bazar will be at grave risk from flooding and landslides over the next several months. To reduce
these risks, IOM, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Food Program (WFP)
established the Joint Maintenance Engineering Project to create structural solutions. One key
output is the preparation of a 12-acre plot on stable ground for shelters and other key services for
nearly 500 families currently living on sandy hillsides on some of the most at-risk parts of the site.

Strengthening shelters
For those who cannot be immediately relocated, UN agencies are working to distribute shelter
upgrade kits, containing ropes, bamboo, tarpaulin, and tools, to more than 120,000 households.
IOM is also helping to strengthen and stabilize shelters by leading community training on shelter
upgrades and disaster risk reduction. So far, more than 37,000 households have been trained.
Dredging and renovating canals
As part of the Joint Maintenance Engineering Project, UN agencies are dredging and renovating
over nine kilometers of abandoned canals in Cox’s Bazar’s Mukhiya sub-district to prevent
flooding and allow water runoff during heavy rains. In addition, renovation efforts will also clear
key access roads to ensure the continued flow of aid and services.

Promoting the health of girls and women

Since the Rohingya refugee crisis began, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has established
reproductive health clinics and safe spaces in the camps of Cox’s Bazar to address the health needs
of women and girls, including providing essential antenatal care to more than 72,000 women.
Since these needs do not go away in natural disasters, UNFPA is reinforcing existing structures to
withstand heavy rains and preparing contingency plans, such as relocating services.

Minimizing hunger
In addition to ensuring the safe delivery of food by improving drainage channels and stabilizing
slopes, WFP is expanding its e-voucher program to cover all existing refugees and the influx of
new refugees. Currently, more than 800,000 refugees in Cox’s Bazar receive WFP food assistance
every month. To minimize increasing vulnerability to hunger, the e-voucher program will give
families more flexibility to when they can shop and what foods they can eat, including greater
access to more nutritious foods such as vegetables, eggs, and dried fish.

Addressing health risks

Floods pose numerous risks to health and well-being – from immediate injuries to the transmission
of water-borne diseases, including dysentery and cholera, in the aftermath. The World Health
Organization (WHO) and UN partners are enacting disaster-response plans to ensure health
services: relocating health facilities vulnerable to flooding, establishing rehydration points,
continuing vital vaccine campaigns, and more

Explore how other countries deal with voluntourism. How do they provide services?
What packages do they give?
Voluntourism centered on multifarious effects, which combine to create an inward as well as
outward journey for tourists and various impacts for the community they visit at large.
The discussion will focus on the personal and business-related tax-deductible options for
Voluntourism products and services. Voluntourism poses a relatively straightforward personal IRS
tax deduction for Voluntarists as long as the organization is a qualified charitable organization. It
may be difficult for a Voluntourism operator to identify a qualified charitable organization in an
international setting, however. Most international grassroots organizations, including schools,
orphanages, clinics, etc., will not fall under the category of a qualified charitable organization.
Persons interested in assisting with the recovery and rebuilding efforts.
The Indian River Package is for five nights in either standard or superior accommodation and
includes transportation to and from the site and three meals daily. Packages start at US$600 per
person. A 40% discount is offered for monthly stays and a 15% group discount is available for
bookings of 10 or more rooms. In voluntourism media cover huge responsibility for help as a
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Voluntourism is a growing industry that attracts all sorts of people. Everyone from retired baby
boomers to college spring breakers are interested in mixing travel with good deeds, and there are
voluntourism opportunities available for just about any preference or interest. You can go to South
Africa and study meerkats, travel to Peru for a community development project, work with doctors
in Tanzania, or remain in your home country and help clean up national parks.
The latter sort of volunteer travel is typically associated with governmental efforts or religious
organizations. Peace Corps volunteers may stay with the Corps for up to five years, working on
long-term projects like teaching English or distributing medicine. Voluntourism, on the other hand,
is short-term. Voluntourism vacations focus on specific and current issues, but also allow travelers
the time to experience local culture. For example, one organization offers an eight-day trip to
Cambodia, where volunteers help to build a rainwater collection unit. However, before they begin
their service, they tour historical sites and visit the country's capital city
Voluntourism's recent upswing might be a reaction to significant world events. David Clemmons
of VolunTourism.org points to disasters like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the 2004 tsunami and
Hurricane Katrina as placing tourism in a newer context Tourism dollars are essential to bringing
back a weakened local economy, so voluntourists help with both their hands and their money. And
many travelers want to interact with a culture in a more meaningful way than tramping through its
tourist attractions.
And don't forget the simplest reason -- people feel good when they're helping. Studies have shown
that there is a positive relationship between health and volunteering. In fact, people who volunteer
tend to have greater longevity and lower levels of depression
A volunteer vacation can cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars, not including
airfare. Some organizations offer grants or subsidies in special cases. For example, the
organization Travel for Good offers a "Change Ambassadors Grant" that awards up to $5,000 for
those eligible. For the most part, though, a volunteer trip means you spend your own money, just
like a regular vacation.
In the- 1970s, funding for scientific field research was beginning to dry up, and many projects
were in danger of cancellation. An organization called Earthwatch came up with the idea to raise
money through tourist dollars. It guessed that travelers would be willing to pay money to watch
researchers work in the field, doing things like conducting archaeological digs or tracking wild
animals. What Earthwatch didn't predict was that the travelers didn't want to just watch -- they
wanted to participate. The organization quickly put their volunteers to work doing data collection,
digging through ruins, even trapping animals and insects for study. Since Earthwatch projects were
only a few days or a few weeks long, people could volunteer during their traditional vacation time.
This sort of volunteer travel began attracting an affluent, slightly older crowd -- people who had
the money to spend on a volunteer vacation but who had time constraints.
Many organizations even open up their trips to entire families -- an alternative to the typical Disney
vacation. There are thousands of programs from which to choose, hosted by dozens of different
companies. Organizations range from nonprofit, charitable organizations to big-name travel
agencies looking for a new marketing niche. Many traditional vacation Web sites now have
dedicated sections for voluntourism. Potential travelers can search for voluntours that match their
interests, read stories from other voluntourists and hook up with travel groups.