bKash facilitates UNHCR to provide financial aid to Cox’s Bazar poor

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has distributed financial aid of Tk 2,500 per person through bKash to 15,000 locals in Cox’s Bazar.

UNHCR distributed the financial aid through bKash to the pandemic-hit most vulnerable individuals and people living in extreme poverty in the district. Kamrul Hasan, Divisional Commissioner of Chattogram formally inaugurated the financial aid disbursement through bKash at Cox’s Bazar DC Office recently.

People who have lost their jobs during the pandemic, people with disability, the elderly, widows, hawkers, transgender, hotel staff received the financial aid. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society carried out the project as local implementation partner of UNHCR.

Mamunur Rashid, Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, Ita Schuette, Head of Office for UNHCR in Cox’s Bazar, Imam Zafar Sikder, Disaster Response Director of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and Mehmud Ashique Iqbal, Vice President and Somel Reza Khan, Deputy General Manager from Commercial division of bKash, were present.