Yeasmin Akter (left) is learning to make dresses and hopes to continue her tailoring work from her home in the camp in Bangladesh. Image: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

Yeasmin wears a salmon covered hijab that covers her mouth and sits at a sewing machine. The woman standing next to her wears a black hijab and a medical mask.

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