Rohingya Muslims set up shops in camps in bid to make their own living
Enterprising Rohingya refugees are setting up small kiosks inside the makeshift camps in Cox's Bazar, selling vegetables and other sundry items as they try to support themselves in Bangladesh, their adopted home after fleeing a bloody military offensive in Myanmar.
The shop owners say they can make between 200 to 300 Bangladeshi Taka (around $2 to $4) on a good day by getting their supplies from nearby wholesale markets.
Aid organizations like the World Food Program (WFP) said they were ramping up their relief operations, the sheer numbers and the enormity of the task made it almost impossible to reach every single person.
The speed and scale of the exodus from Myanmar - one of the worst refugee crises in decades - has left hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in dire conditions in a poor part of a poor country, and UN and aid agencies are scrambling to give people shelter, get them fed and prevent an outbreak of disease.
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