Category: Aljazeera

Coronavirus crisis forces the centre to cancel Ramadan fundraiser and puts the community it serves in dire straits.

Chicago, Illinois – Ramadan for Chicago’s only Rohingya Culture Center is not just a time for prayer, community and service, but also a time for survival. Every year, the centre, located in the heart of the major United States city’s bustling South Asian community, hosts nightly iftars for the families it serves, pairing them with fundraising drives through local mosques to support the programming it provides to the city’s Rohingya refugees who have settled here.

Chicago has one of the largest number of Rohingya refugees to have been resettled in the United States.

More than 1,600 Rohingya are based in Chicago, having spent years in Malaysia after fleeing persecution and violence in Myanmar in the 1990s and 2000s.

Muslim Rohingya who escaped deadly violence and persecution in Myanmar have found new homes in the United States.

Muslim Rohingya who escaped deadly violence and persecution in Myanmar have found new homes in the United States.

One of the largest concentrations of Rohingya is in the US city of Chicago.