Service Delivery to Rohingya and Lebanese Community Report 2022

Running head: SERVICE DELIVERY TO ROHINGYA AND LEBANESE COMMUNITY
Service Delivery to Rohingya and Lebanese Community
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Overview of Rohingya and Lebanese Community....................................................................3
Barriers in accessing health services for Rohingya and Lebanese Community.........................5
Culturally responsive strategy for social workers......................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
A community refers to social unit which have the commonality in terms of the norms,
religion along with the values. They share sense of the place within the given geographic area
which is crucial in relation to their identity. The social workers should have the cultural
competence that can help them in demonstrating respect for the cultural and social diversity.
The social workers should have the ability of expanding the opportunities to all kinds of the
people irrespective of their social and cultural background. The Rohingya people refer to the
Indo-Aryan ethnic group who follow the religion Islam and who predominantly inhabited in
Rakhine State of Myanmar. They are indigenous to the western Myanmar and they have the
influence of Arabs, Mughals along with Portuguese (Nationalgeographic.com., 2020).
Lebanese people refers to the people who inhabited the Mount Lebanon before the creation of
modern Lebanese state. The religious groups among Lebanese people are Sunni Muslim, Shia
Muslim, Greek Orthodox Christians along with the Protestant Christians. This report throws
light on the migration histories along with the cultural characteristics of the people belonging
to the Rohingya along with the Lebanese community. This report elaborates on potential
barriers in accessing the health services for the community groups and the culturally
responsive strategy that should be considered by the social workers for engaging with the
people of these communities.
Overview of Rohingya and Lebanese Community
The Rohingya people refer to the ethnic group coming from Myanmar which was
once known as Burma. Myanmar is primarily a Buddhist state and Rohingya people on the
other hand are predominantly Muslim. The Muslim settlers arrived in the Arakan state which
was an independent coastal kingdom which in the present time is known as Myanmar. Burma
was conquered by the Britain in the year 1824 and till the year 1948 Britain used to rule

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Burma as a part of the British India (Bbc.com., 2020). At this point of time, there were other
Muslims from the state of Bengal who entered the country as the migrant workers. The
Rohingya people are deprived of the basic rights in Myanmar and they are thought of to be
stateless in the country. In the event of Myanmar becoming military state in the year 1962,
Rohingya people became the victims of that of state-sponsored persecution. The Rohingya
people are thought of to be illegal immigrants by the state and they are not recognized by law.
In the year 2017, Rohingya militants were instrumental in attacking Myanmar army that
sparked the wave of the anti-Rohingya persecution.
There were certain cultural characteristics that were integral to the Rohingya
community. The Rohingya people living within the framework of the large family in
Myanmar and the children used to attend the school along with the educational institutions
like The Maktab along with Madrasa. The head of household were the men who used to take
the ultimate decisions in the family. The men used to take the decisions after the consultation
with the other members of the family. There were around 45 % of the women who used to
receive the vocational education and there existed another 31 % who did not receive any kind
of formal education. Mean age of marriage was around 16.8 years which made the women
susceptible to various kinds of the health problems. Rohingya language is part of Indo-Aryan
branch of Indo-European language family and it have been found to be related to
Chittagonian language which is spoken in southern portion of Bangladesh (George, 2012).
The challenges that are faced by the Rohingya communities are in the arena of security as a
large number of the people fall prey to the human trafficking. The strength of the people
emerges on account of the fact that they have the moral strength on account of their rich
culture that have helped them in defending themselves against the atrocities that are
perpetrated against them.