Today, nearly a million Rohingya refugees live in Bangladesh (UNHCR, November 2023), the majority in the Cox's Bazar district. Most of them have been forcibly displaced as a result of the massacres taking place in Myanmar since 2017.

Every year, the Cercle National des Bénévoles awards the Mérite Bénévole medal to volunteers whose commitment to the community is unfailing and whose merits are many.