Photo Credit: DevrigVelly, EU/ECHO January 2013 Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection: February 25, 2013 Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house ten families displaced by the recent inter-communal fighting. “I used to work for a European NGO”, Abdul explains. ”So I am using my skills to work with contractors who have been tasked to build these shelters. This way my people have at least a roof over their heads”. 1,600 families have found shelter in this camp called “Say Tha Mar Gyi”, located about 8 km north-west of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital. Here the construction of the barrack-type temporary shelters is just one of the activities underway. Latrines have been constructed, water bore-holes installed. Others, such as Abdul and his four children have f...