Hothath Ak Bondhu – Rohingya Shishuder Golpo
Written by Raya Rahman
Illustrated by Inshra Sakhawat Russell
Published by Guba Publishing
ফয়সাল রিফিউজি ক্যাম্পে থাকে যেখানে তার সাথে দেখা হয় এক আহত পাখির। সে পাখিটিকে সারিয়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করে এবং এই সময় অনেক কিছু শিখতে পারে সে।
In the midst of a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh, Faisal, a young Rohingya boy, finds an injured bird and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy and the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals, they face the dilemma of holding on to or losing something they dearly love.
Thoughtfully illustrated with detailed imagery, The Unexpected Friend is a fictional story based on the real lives of Rohingya children living in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Their individual stories were compiled through the dedicated work of aid agencies Save the Children, Plan International and World Vision and transformed into a storybook in partnership with Guba Publishing, for the purpose of gifting it to the children in the camps.
The Rohingya are a Muslim minority of 1.3 million, formerly living in the Rakhine State within Myanmar. Risking death by sea or on foot, nearly 700,000 have fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma) for neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017. Bangladesh now houses 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp.
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Available As: Paperback
Picture Book, Age 05 or older
Community Represented: Rohingya/Rohingya American
Themes: Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Religious, Non-English Book: Bengali, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Camp, Refugee: Persecution, Religious Background: Muslim
Setting: Bangladesh
Character’s New Arrival/New American Status: Refugee
Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience
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