Photo 4 : Rohingya children playing in font of peace murals painted by Rohingya refugees. Photo – Yee Htun (Kutupalong camp) The challenges facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh include access to adequate shelter, clean water, sanitation, food, health and services, security and safe spaces for vulnerable populations including women and girls, and education for children whose lives have been uprooted. The living condition are dire. Refugees’ shelters, made of plastic sheeting and bamboo, measuring about twenty square meters, and housing on average about a dozen people40 are extremely vulnerable to the seasonal monsoons and the landslides and floods associated with them. Scores of injuries, deaths, damages to shelters, and emergency relocations have been reported in the camps every year as a result of monsoon.41 Poor infrastructure and sanitation and close living quarters mean that the Rohingya refugees are at increased risk for diseases and infection. With COVID-19, this risk has increased exponentially. Public health officials had already documented high rates of respiratory disease and infection, even https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/documents/files/f undingupdates_june.pdf. 40 Taken from field notes and observations of co-author during January 2020 visit to Kutupalong camps. 41 “Scores of Rohingya refugee shelters in Bangladesh destroyed by flooding,” UN News, July 5, 2019, https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1041931. 12