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FOOD
Two meals a day are provided free of charge, at 8 am and 4:30 pm. They are prepared in central kitchens by refugee staff under CSD supervision, and refugees queue in a central dining hall to receive meals.
Meals meet WHO calorific guidelines. They consist of rice or rice gruel, a little meat or fish, often dried, and sometimes a thin vegetable gruel. The diet is severly lacking in fresh fruit or vegetables. At the time of writing, social worker Anne Marie Tran said the children at Tuen Mun
X camp had had no fresh vegetables for almost two months.
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At Chimawan, the is a small restaurant run by refugees which serves noodles and simple Vietnamese tood. The restaurani charges for food, and the social worker who initiated the project buys ingredients with the takings.
A Salvation Army shop supplies soft drinks, biscuits, cigarettes etc. Refugees say their sense of hopelessness is increased by having no control over even simple daily functions such as cooking.
RECREATION
Each cam
p has at least one pitch used for football or volleyball, although it is not always open.
"All recreational activities in the camp are limited, for example: singing and dancing, In groups. For this we repeatedly sent letters of request but they have rarely been answered. Even the football ground is only opened once or twice a week" writes a refugee from Tuen Mun.
in Chimawan, the Salvation Army runs a library with books in English and Vietnamese, and newspapers. It is open from 10-4 daily.
Refugees spend evenings standing crowded around a black and white television.
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