Nurul Amin, 17 years old, son of Sayed Nur from Kamaung Seik, Northern part of Maungdaw, Arakan State in Myanmar. In 2017, Amin along with his parents left his homeland due to a horribly genocidal act on the Rohingya minority conducted by the brutal Burmese Militaries and arrived at Kutupalong, the largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.
” In Myanmar, when I was a child, I attended to a primary school in my village and It was the most challenging period for me as the school was so far from my house and it took me hours to reach at it. During rainy days, I was completely wet while I was on the way of my school. However, I hardly managed class 2 in my homeland before 2017.” Nurul Amin claimed
In 2017, the raping, discrimination, torturing, killing innocents, throwing children into fire, burning the houses and so on operated by the Burmese militaries forced over 1 million Rohingya people from their homes and fled to a bordering country, Bangladesh and took refuge in the forests of Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf. “ My legs became disable and unable to walk on while we were crossing the mountains, villages, barbed fence and river on Aug 2017.” Amin added.
Many elderly people and young children endured unbearable struggle to find a peaceful life on those days, leaving the homes. On their way of Bangladesh, they fought starvation as they took nothing from their homes.
“ It took us two days to travel through the hills for reaching Bangladesh and had nothing to eat and sometimes we needed to pinch our stomachs to relieve the suffering of hunger.” Amin expressed
After being a refugee in the largest refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, he became a dreamless boy and received no opportunity to continue his study. With guidelines regarding learning forced him toward useless and wasted his time without doing anything for years. Finally, his father, Sayed Nur has open a small shop near his shelter and it starts working for the entire family. “ At the last, my father made me a shopkeer and selling it every morning and evening.” Amin said
” When I was 15, one opportunity from the Life Destination High School offered me to continue my educational journey and I have been attending the class from grade-3 since 2023. It is the hope and building a dream to catch my destination through this learning platform.” He added
There are many young Rohingya children who have no opportunities to make their life and build their future by studying in the Rohingya refugee camp. Offering a formal educational opportunities bring the peace and successes in which people can enjoy their lifetime and make the community develop. The international community must focus to restore the higher education for the Rohingya students in Refugee camp, Bangladesh.
Life Destination School 