On a dry and hot summer afternoon last year, Achala Navaratne, then the country representative at American Red Cross in Bangladesh, was busy supporting the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society with a cyclone preparedness program in Cox’s Bazar. The southeastern coastal district hosts about a million Rohingya refugees in sprawling camps,
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Grameenphone, Red Crescent Society unite for relief to flood-hit people
Grameenphone has been facilitating flood-affected communities in partnership with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to help fight the ordeal through relief and rehabilitation efforts. Four medical camps have hence been deployed in Netrokona, Sylhet, and Sunamganj, providing medical consultancy and necessary medicines to the flood affected people in the nearby