In late August 2017, an eruption of violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, caused the mass movement of more than half a million people – mostly Rohingya women, children and older people – across the border into Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. They arrived on foot and by boat, exhausted and hungry, with few possessions and very little money or food.
With more than a million people in urgent need of life-saving assistance, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched an appeal, raising a total of £30 million, including £5 million from the UK Government’s Aid Match scheme. This report provides an overview of how funds donated directly to the DEC (£20.4 million) were spent between October 2017 and the end of December 2019.
