Cox’s Bazar: On August 25, a 15-year-old Rohingya refugee constructed a small-scale hydraulic excavator from spare parts in a refugee settlement in Bangladesh. Using large plastic syringes as pumps to manipulate the excavator, Mohammad Toyub tested his device by lifting rice grains from a plate set on the floor. More than 1 million Rohingya are living in often squalid tent cities in the district of Cox’s Bazar near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
