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SPACE ON EARTH

OGILVY SINGAPORE / BRAC / 2019

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A regular television set is launched from the heart of the Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh into the edge of space carried by a giant weather balloon.

As the TV sparks to life and ascends, it shows harrowing testimonials from Rohingya children, they talk about their own eye witness accounts of atrocities they witnessed committed by the Myanmar troops and local militia.

The TV finally arrives at the edge of space where a child makes a final plea for ‘A little space on earth to live’

In so doing we put the Rohingya refugee crisis on the world stage and demonstrate the ridiculousness of the situation - how can a planet so big not be able to accommodate an entire people?

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The Rohingya are a minority Muslim people living in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) that have been persecuted for hundreds of years by the Hindu & Buddhist majority.

In 2017 things escalated and nearly a million were forced to flee their burning villages by the army and seek refuge across the border into Bangladesh.

500,000 of them were innocent children.

The United Nations described it as Genocide, a text book example of ethnic cleansing.

But with everything else happening on the world stage in 2017 this crisis was simply failing to make the news.

BRAC, the world’s biggest NGO working with the Rohingya children decided to do something about it.

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