Funding crisis shatters young dreams

Young casualties of war: (Clockwise, from top left) Mohammed Jaber teaching English to students at a WFP Food Assistance and Learning Center, inside the refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar.

Begum, a Rohingya refugee, is relieved she married off one of her seven daughters before fun­ding cuts closed her school and thousands of others in Ban­g­ladesh’s cramped refugee camps, affecting nearly half a million children.

The daughter, Begum’s second born, was 16.