Giving Compass' Take:

• This Partners Asia post highlights the work of Children on the Edge, an organization providing humanitarian relief to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

• The goal in 2019 is to provide education to 7,500 children in the camps. How might this effort work, and could it be a model for other refugee-focused groups?

• Here are some innovations in education for refugee populations.

Last year, a military crackdown in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, forced more than 720,000 Rohingya and other ethnic minority refugees to seek shelter in Bangladesh. They joined more than 200,000 Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar during previous waves of communal violence, creating the world’s largest refugee camp of nearly one million people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Our Partner Children on the Edge has worked in the refugee camps and slum areas in Cox’s Bazar for the last eight years. Last fall they delivered humanitarian relief, using trusted networks and deep knowledge of the camps. This took the form of 34 deep tube wells, 200 deep latrines, 5,840 food parcels and 5,250 solar lights. This year we’re supporting their efforts to build and operate 75 Learning Centers — providing education in a safe space for 7,500 children.

Focusing on areas with limited access to water points, Children on the Edge and local partner Mukti constructed 34 wells to a depth of approximately 700 feet each and 200 latrines. Within a few weeks of construction, they were receiving feedback that the wells provided the clearest water in the area, with families from other sections of the camp walking over half an hour to use them. Five months on, these facilities are all working perfectly.

Read the full article about what refugee camps in Bangladesh are like at Partners Asia.