JH1ACQ
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Recommendation 3
More should be done
to prepare the inhabitants of Hong
Kong's refugee camps for life after they are resettled,
especially through training and upgrading of skills
1.
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The Hong Kong Government fully recognise the
importance of ensuring that all refugees have access to adequate educational and training facilities while they remain in camps in order both to prepare them for their
new life after they have been resettled and to stimulate
their interest and
reduce frustration and boredom. In
the closed camps,
education and training are provided
jointly by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner
Government,
for
Refugees (UNHCR) and the Hong Kong
with substantial assistance from voluntary
agencies. (In the open camps, education and training
are provided by the UNHCR who are responsible for
administering the camps in cooperation with voluntary
agencies. The provision of educational facilities and
programmes falls within the direct responsibility of the
UNHCR's educational coordinator (see para 2 below) whose
tasks include the maintenance of adequate educational
standards in the open camp s (similar to those in the
closed camps) and the coordination of programme s in
these camp s with those provided in the closed camps.
The following paragraphs therefore refer only to the situation in the closed camps.)
2.
Provision has been made for the education and
training of children and adults in the closed camps ever
since the camps we re first established in July 1982.
However the current aim of the Hong Kong Government and
UNHCR is to develop and expand present arrangements on a
coordinated basis in order to provide the s ame
form of education in each of the camps.
this task, UNHCR appointed a full time
Coordinator
in February 1985.
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To assist in
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They have
also
agreed,