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STORY: BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA STOVES
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: / NATS
DATELINE: 20 - 21 NOVEMBER 2019, KUTAPALONG REFUGEES SETTLEMENT, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Various shots, refugees receiving training on how to safely operate their new gas stoves at a UNHCR Distribution Center
2. Various shots, refugees receiving their new stoves after training
3. Various shots, Rohingya refugee and mother of five, Monoara, cooking at home with her gas stove
4. Wide shot, Monoara’s family coming home
5. Various shots, mother returning from the forest with her son after collecting fire wood.
UNHCR has launched a broad campaign to distribute clean-burning gas stoves and cylinders to Rohingya refugees, to provide safe means for families to cook and to stem deforestation in the surrounding forests in Bangladesh.
In a major step to tackle deforestation in the Rohingya refugee settlements, UNHCR has begun a full-scale programme to distribute energy-efficient LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) cooking stoves and cylinders, aiming to reach all Rohingya refugee households in its operational areas and some of the poorest host communities living nearby.
The programme hopes to reach at least 60,000 households by the end of the year.
Refugees and many host communities have been almost entirely reliant on firewood for cooking. It has been estimated that at least 700 metric tonnes of wood – equivalent to four football fields – have been cut every day for use as firewood.
UNHCR had been helping to mitigate the environmental impact by providing monthly distributions of Compressed Rice Husks (CRH) to 95,000 refugee families, but it has been insufficient for all their cooking needs. As part of the distributions, refugees will receive hands-on training on how to safely use the LPG cylinders and stoves. They will also be entitled to regular gas refills at monthly periods.
