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Laila*, 18 with her son Abul* 18 months and daughter Jida, 2* travel by boat to Teknaf, Bangladesh.
Laila, who is five months pregnant, arrived late on Saturday 30th September with her two young children. She spent the night on the island taking shelter in a local school.
On Sunday she travelled by boat to mainland Bangladesh, her boat fare paid for by locals who are helping the refugees. Laila received food and a piece of tarpaulin before being transported by truck to Balukhali Camp. She arrived at Balukhali Camp after dark and was dropped off at the side of the road where she was forced to spend the night.
Laila has been living in Balukhali Camp for just under a week. She is five months pregnant and arrived in Bangladesh by boat with her two young children. Her husband went missing as she fled and doesn’t know if he is dead or alive.
"We didn’t bring anything. With two children and along with other people we fled and came here. We didn’t even bring clothes.
We couldn’t eat. If people gave us food we ate, otherwise we were hungry and thirsty. We didn’t eat for three or four days. We drank water from lakes and waterfalls - that’s how we managed.
We had to walk for one whole day. It was really far. After the hardship we came here.
There were three families, all three families got into one boat. They didn’t take money from us. I was scared. People were crying. The children were crying.
When we got into the boat we were scared as water was getting in the boat, I was scared that it would sink, people were crying. When I was in the boat I was praying that I will reach the place safely."
"From the school they put us in a truck. Then we had to cross a lake, after that they put us in another truck and we came here. Then we spent a night in the open field beside the graveyard. After spending a night there we came to the camp.
At night when they had dropped us off from the truck, I was feeling restless and sat there. The children slept on a mat. With grave sadness we laid down."
"There are lots of problems, no water, no place to go to bathroom, there is no place to take a shower.
We dig holes to get water. This is a hilly place, we can’t go to fetch water. So we dig holes to get water and use it to cook.
It is dirty. People go to the toilet here, but as we can’t live without water so we are drinking it."
*Names have been changed
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