Red Crescent reunites dispersed BD family members

Robiul, a teenaged boy from Chittagong, was lost for words when he spotted his father on the premises of the Cox's Bazar branch of Red Crescent. For the first time in months, the elderly man was able to hug his young son. He pressed him hard, as if he would not let go of him. Their tears said all there was to say. Belal, the older brother of 17-year-old Nadeem, was full of smiles. At last, after months of no contact, he met his brother who had set out for Malaysia with dreams of improving his family’s life. Expressing his joy and relief, Belal said: "I tried everything to save my brother, even paid money to bring him back, but everything was in vain; I couldn't even trace him. Thanks to the Red Crescent Society's effort, we are going home. Together." A group of 150 Bangladeshi migrants, lured by traffickers to pursue a better life abroad, were rescued from the Myanmar coast in June 2015. Among them were 24 unaccompanied minors who, after going through this ordeal, were able to return to their families thanks to the assistance of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), according to UNB.