Over 30 years Rohingya have lived in a limbo of statelessness. Driven out of their ancestral land, living largely undocumented in different countries across the world an denied even basic rights that people take for granted, the struggles the Rohingya diaspora face are severe. As a result of their stateless condition, the 3.5 million Rohingya live as an invisible people on the margins, and are vulnerable to destitution, human trafficking, and other maladies.

Over time, the Project will strive to be a space where the stateless Rohingya can organize themselves and support their own on-the-ground and virtual initiatives to further their community's interests. The eventual impact can reach hundreds of thousands of Rohingya potentially from the 3-4 million stateless Rohingya diaspora. While the world may know the Rohingya now as only victims, the Rohingya Project's mission is to bring their dignity back.

The Rohingya Project is targeting a central issue the Rohingya diaspora face as a result of statelessness: financial exclusion. Many second and third generation stateless Rohingya live on the margins in their host societies and encounter significant obstacles in generating a livelihood and keeping themselves out of poverty. The goal of the Project is to connect these Rohingya to opportunities to learn, equip and empower themselves and the wider Rohingya diaspora through technology and empowerment.

Blockchain is decentralised, peer-2-peer, cryptographically secure, and not controlled by any government or banks - which means no single party can compromise a person’s identity. This fits the use case of the Rohingya who themselves are scattered globally in several countries and previous victims of centralized controlled erasure of their identities. Using their own unique blockchain-based digital identities and crowdfunded resources, Rohingya diaspora communities will have the foundation to empowering themselves economically and socially.