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COVID-19 places half a million more girls at risk of child marriage in 2020

·         Save the Children analysis reveals a further 2.5 million girls at risk of marriage by 2025 because of pandemic—the greatest surge in child marriage rates in 25 years

Save the Children has set up a 60-bed isolation and treatment centre in Teknaf to provide care to the suspected COVID-19 patients from the Rohingya refugee camps and the local community, with support from UK Aid and fund managed by UNOPS. The Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Centre (SARI ITC) is located in camp 21, Chakmarkur Union in Teknaf Upazila.

Joint Statement on International Day of the Girl Child 11 October 2019

“GirlForce: Unscripted and unstoppable”

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is one of the greatest heroes of the world history whose individual contribution and leadership brought liberation for Bangladesh. He is the father of our nation. He was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh until his assassination in August 1975. 15^th August is his death anniversary and this day is observed as the National Mourning Day in Bangladesh. It was his 44^th death anniversary this year.