The 100 Village Project aims to revitalize the Rohingya refugee community in Malaysia by means of sustainable housing and permaculture-based farming methods. We empower the Rohingya refugees to work with local people and awesome backpackers/tourists in providing socioeconomic equity for the disadvantaged population. The Rohingya are often said to be one of the world's most persecuted minorities. T
hey are an ethnic Muslim group in the majority Buddhist Myanmar, making up around 1 million of the total 50 million population. Almost all of them live in one of the country's poorest states, Rakhine, with a population of 3 million. The Rohingya are not regarded as one of the country’s 135 official ethnic groups and are denied citizenship under Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law, which effectively renders them stateless for more than three decades. With systemic violence going on over the years, many of them fled, or are still fleeing, to neighboring nations like Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, thus becoming stateless refugees. And, what does being a stateless refugee mean? While many refugees have citizenship but were mostly compelled into seeking asylum due to reasons such as war, the Rohingya reality of statelessness means that these refugees have extremely limited access to fundamental rights. These are the things that we take for granted.
