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JHIACQ

More should be done

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Recommendation 3

to prepare the inhabitants of Hong Kong's refugee camps for life after they are resettled, especially through training and upgrading of skills

1.

the

The Hong Kong Government fully recognise 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.

education and training are provided

Office of the United Nations High

the closed camps,

jointly by the

Commissioner for

In

Refugees (UNHCR) and the Hong Kong Government, 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

programme s falls within the direct responsibility of the UNHCR's educational coordinator (see para 2 below) whose

tasks include the

standards in the open

closed camps) and the

these camp s with those provided in the

The following paragraphs therefore refer situation in the closed camps.)

2.

maintenance of adequate educational

(similar to those in the

coordination of

camp s

programme s

in

•

closed camp s

only to the

Provision has been made for the education and

training of children and adults in the closed camps ever

since the camp s 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

basic

form of education in each of the camps. To assist in

this task, UNHCR appointed a full time educational

coordinator

in February 1985.

They have also agreed,