Rizoan Alam and Sahana Akter, two siblings from the Rohingya community in Carlow have received places to study medicine at University College Cork (UCC). Both will begin the five-year medicine MB,BCh,BAO (Hons) at the same medical school next month. Rizoan and Sahana have completed their Leaving Certificate with excellent results at St. Mary’s Academic CBS and St. Leo’s College Carlow…
As students across Ireland mark the end of their secondary school years, four Rohingya students celebrate their remarkable journey from being born in refugee camps to completing their secondary schools in excellent forms. The students were between the ages of four and six when they were resettled in Carlow and Dublin in 2009. All of them were born in Kutupalong…
Rohingya girls and women from Rohingya Action Ireland opened a henna tattooing parlour to raise fund for the education of Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The parlour session which lasted for six hours at Fairgreen Shopping Centre on March 26, has brought many people of diverse backgrounds from Carlow, aided with the wonderful warm weather. Rohingya girls and…