2017 Emergency Appeal
for People Fleeing Myanmar
Six-Month Report

2017 Emergency Appeal
for People Fleeing Myanmar
Six-Month Report

By the time the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched its appeal in October 2017, more than half a million people, mostly Rohingya women and children, had sought refuge in Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, in what the United Nations Secretary General described as a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. 

Six months after the launch of the DEC appeal, DEC member charities had reached 351,500 people with food assistance, provided safe drinking water and sanitation support for 124,400 people, and distributed materials to build shelters for 19,500 families.