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Rohingya activists call for more control of aid money

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About 90% of the 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh struggled to have acceptable food consumption last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. We know how and where to put this money. We can run with $10,000 farther than any other humanitarian groups can. We are asking for aid to be utilized and to directly go to refugee-led initiatives. We're not always spent in ways most helpful.

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Rohingya activists call for more control of aid money

Rohingya Muslim activists representing fellow refugees forced out of Myanmar and into “prison-like” camps in Bangladesh said in Washington on Thursday that foreign aid to the camps would go further if some of it was given directly to refugee-run groups. But a representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, said little money was left over after aid cuts that currently see the refugees provided with only $10 worth of foo…

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