Kutupalong, Bangladesh: With interest in the Rohingya refugees fading two years after fleeing their homeland, the World Food Programme has found a new weapon to maintain awareness, one with a wet nose and a wagging tail.
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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar into Bangladesh. They are now stuck in vast refugee camps with little prospect of returning home.
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The exodus attracted global attention at the time, but despite the efforts of aid agencies – including a February visit to the camps by UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie – the world is losing interest.
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But late last year, workers from the WFP rescued a three-week-old puppy abandoned on the beach, adopting him and naming him Foxtrot.
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Gemma Snowdon, a WFP communications officer, said that after posting photos of Foxtrot on her personal social media pages, she had a brainwave that the canine could be put to good use.
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Now Foxtrot has his own Instagram account – called “humanitarian_pup” – with regular updates on his activities around the camps, sometimes wearing his own blue UN apron.
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“As time goes on, interest and attention on situations like these and emergency responses like these does naturally die off,” Snowdon told AFP.
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“Foxtrot is opening us up to new audiences, and keeping the story of what’s happening here on the agenda,” she said. “He’s very popular with donors.”
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