LONDON: The UK will provide £27 million ($36 million) to help Rohingya refugees who have fled war and food shortages in Myanmar.
The aid package will provide food, shelter, clean water and other life-saving services to half a million people living in camps in neighboring Bangladesh.
The funding was announced by the UK’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday as a UN conference on the Muslim minority group took place in New York.
The US also announced $60 million in assistance for Rohingya and other Myanmar minority refugees “who have been victims of repression and violence,” and fled their country.
The UK aid will be delivered through various UN agencies including the World Food Program and UNICEF, along with other aid groups.
