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11.
fully
training
Educational and Training schemes: Hong Kong Government recognise importance of providing adequate educational and facilities. They are currently considering further how best they can provide refugees with skills sought by resettlement countries. Much appreciate efforts of your local Hong Kong office in this
regard: understand you are funding construction of multi-purpose training centre as Hei Ling Chau closed centre, and are proposing to
recruit full-time educational coordinator for all the centres in
Hong Kong.
Jubilee Open Centre
12. Jubilee epitomises Hong Kong's Vietnamese Refugee problem : all the residents are ethnic Vietnamese who have been in Hong Kong at least 2호 years, and few are eligible for consideration by any
resettlement country under current criteria. Grateful for UNHCR 's
continuing efforts to
support.
resettle these people and for their financial
13.
Understand Caritas have now decided to withdraw from managing Jubilee. Hope you will be able to find a
Local absorption (defensive)
14.
successor soon.
of
Unrealistic to expect Hong Kong to absorbe large numbers Vietname s e refugees. They have
have already
already absorbed 14500 displaced
Indo-Chinese since 1975 Hong Kong people would greatly resent further settlement of Vietnamese, when illegal Chinese immigrants are repatriated daily.
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