Sophie visits Rohingya refugee camps on trip to Bangladesh

Sophie has visited the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh to see the support being offered to displaced people from Myanmar.

The Duchess of Edinburgh heard about efforts to help women and girls as part of her commitment to the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the UK's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.

She met children living in Camp 4, and learnt about their education and experiences.

The duchess travelled to the Unicef learning centre, and visited a Women and Girls' Safe Space, run by the International Organisation for Migration.

She also toured a soap factory within the camps run by the Programme for Helpless and Lagged Societies, a Cox's Bazar-based non-governmental organisation working with Rohingya refugees and vulnerable host communities.

The visit aimed to demonstrate how livelihood programmes can bolster Rohingya women's economic empowerment and self-reliance where access to formal work is limited.

Sophie handled the soap, and watched the pink blocks being produced and cut.

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Since 2017, more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State to find shelter in the densely populated camps in Cox's Bazar - the world's biggest refugee settlement.

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