‘A gift from God’: the Rohingya refugees adopting orphaned babies | Sunaina Kumar and Fiona Weber-Steinhaus

The sexual violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military could have led to a surge in abandoned newborns – but it never came

On the night Rahima was born, the rain lashed down on Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Inside one makeshift hut, Dildar Begum tried to help a woman in labour. But she couldn’t stop the bleeding and the mother died.

“Maybe it’s God’s will that I take care of the baby,” she thought to herself when she cut the umbilical cord.

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