10 year-old Rohingya boy with a 5 year old friend who has stopped speaking and walking completely since the trauma of having to flee. Source: Antonia Roupell/Save the Children
“NO ONE likes going to the woods,” says one Rohingya child living in the refugee camps in Bangladesh. Children talk of violent “forest men”, wild animals, kidnappings, and rape – but they have no choice, their family needs firewood. Without it, their mother can’t cook dinner and their family will go hungry.