83 years old Ayesha sitting inside her shelter
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Resource ID
8688
Access
Open
Date
11 July 20
Country
Bangladesh
Appeal Name
Coronavirus
Location
Cox's Bazar
Credit
Fabeha Monir/ Age International
Caption
83 years old Ayesha sitting inside her shelter in the Rohingya Refugee camp. She is receiving home health care facilities from Age Friendly Space. Ayesha Begum is a member of Age Friendly Space funded by Age International and its local partner Help International.
She said, “I miss going to Age Friendly Space. It’s been a few days that I am not feeling okay. Staff from Age friendly Space visited me at home. I feel happy when I see them coming to meet me. It is like I have people who care for me. At this old age with so many health problems, I cannot seek help to others. Our children are also suffering as they are jobless. In this one bed room tent I am living with my husband, children and grandchildren. When I think about our old days, I feel sad. We had everything in Myanmar. We had land, chickens, cows, now we become beggars. Life is so unfair to us. But with having this help from Age Friendly Space I feel happy. Now in the camp all of the older people people are worried about their future. I am worried too. But no one knows about future, we can only pray to survive.”
Age International is working in Cox’s Bazaar reaching older people and their families with hygiene kits, installing hand washing points to the entrances of our Age-Friendly, and providing community healthcare through a mobile medical team.
We’re training frontline workers from staff and community volunteers alongside providing them with masks, medical gowns, gloves and other key protective kits. We’re reaching doctors, paramedics, physiotherapists, counsellors and other key frontline workers to enable them to continue to support older people without risking spreading the virus.