Changes in the climate for refugees

There have been significant changes over the last couple of months in the climate in which the refugees live. Some of these changes are almost inherent in the lives of long-term refugees. This article summarizes the challenges well: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/04/our-only-aim-is-to-go-home-removal-plans-raise-tensions-in-rohingya-camp

Praise:

• For renewal of our visas in August
• A time of refreshing as we are currently on R&R
• A really positive review of the nutrition (NUT) program by one of the funders - WFP

Prayer:

• The nutrition sector (which is made up of all UN agencies and NGOs) has decided to integrate nutrition programming by having one NGO responsible for all nutrition activities in a single camp. This means that we will be handing over our current 3 nutrition sites to other NGOs and taking on 4 new (to us) camps beginning next year. The transition process will be quite involved and we ask for prayers that it will have minimal impact on the children and PLWs (pregnant and lactating women) whom we serve. This is an exciting move but will mean a huge amount of work for the Nutrition team as well as support teams like logistics and HR. 
• We have had 3 US team members who have failed to get visas from the Bangladeshi embassy - pray for breakthrough!
• For a number of project proposals currently in the works for our Bangladesh program.