Dhaka, April 22 -- Speakers at a BRAC-organised workshop have called for the highest priority to be given to play-based learning to foster children's creativity and cognitive development. They stressed that, alongside Bangladeshi children, Rohingya children living in camps in Cox's Bazar require greater attention to health, safety and social values to support their overall development.

The observations came at a workshop titled "Building Futures Through Play: Stakeholder Engagement for Early Childhood Development", held on Wednesday at a hotel in Cox's Bazar. The event was organised by BRAC's Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP), with support from the Denmark-based LEGO Foundation, in partnership with the US-based SESAME WORKS...