For decades, systematic discrimination, statelessness and targeted violence in Myanmar have forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Since its tragic peak in 2017, over a quarter of a million Rohingya, almost half of them children, have fled to the overcrowded refugee camps in Cox's Bazar in the course of this crisis. The people there live in precarious conditions in makeshift accommodations and depend on humanitarian aid. A fire disaster in March 2023 destroyed 2‘600 shelters and forced 12‘000 people to flee again.

The United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, which has been active in Bangladesh since 1974, also provides urgently needed food aid for the Rohingya. However, cutbacks due to rising food prices and funding shortages have led to ration cuts. This jeopardises the supply of food to the refugees, which exacerbates malnutrition in many refugee camps and particularly affects children under the age of five and pregnant women. With its support, Liechtenstein is therefore making an urgently needed contribution to the WFP's food aid in order to stabilise the local food supply in the long term.