Sayama Zawng Naw, 29, lives in an IDP camp in Kachin State, Myanmar's northernmost state. Photo credit: Hkun Li/Oxfam
Nar Nar Thu, a pseudonym for a Rohingya woman in an IDP camp in Rakhine State, where the Muslim minority face systemic persecution. Photo: Chris Pelling/Oxfam
“We face a lot of challenges as women in the camps,” Nar Nar Thu said. “Women are restricted by their husbands from going outside to do community work, and many of them, as a result, don’t know they can be leaders too.”
Nar Nar Thu, a pseudonym for a Rohingya woman in an IDP camp in Rakhine State, where the Muslim minority face systemic persecution. Photo: Chris Pelling/Oxfam
Bawk Nu Awng, a 22-year-old math student displaced by conflict. Photo: Hkun Li/Oxfam
“I am not the same as others, I am displaced. I have to try two or three times harder than anyone else.”“At school, I felt like people looked down on me, because I was displaced. There was a test in physics, where I got 24/25. Many of the students failed, but I got this high mark. After that, the way people treated me changed.”
Bawk Nu Awng, a 22-year-old student, says math helps her stand out from the crowd. Photo: Hkun Li/Oxfam