The United Nations has featured Bangladeshi architect Rizvi Hassan as 'Real-Life Hero' on its website, to appreciate his contribution in building a safe space for Rohingya women refugees.

Rizvi is the driving force behind the construction of a safe space for Rohingya women and girls, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, site of the world's largest camp for displaced people, and home to around a million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar.

He collaborated with Brac and Unicef to create a community centre for women and girls in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

The centre, designed and built by Rohingyas, provides counselling and training to the women and girls.

Hassan shared his story as part of the #RealLifeHeroes campaign, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), ahead of this year's World Humanitarian Day ( August 19).

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