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they are not permitted to seek outside employment. The se

camps are run by the Hong Kong Government with assistance

from UNHCR and voluntary agencies.

The Jubilee

Camp, where I understand Miss Dew

worked, is an open camp located in Sham Shui Po, which is

in the main urban area of the Kowloon Peninsula. It has

been a particularly difficult camp to run, mainly because

the rate of resettlement from the camp has been very low.

All the refugees in

in the camp

are ethnic Vietnamese from

Vietnam, usually of rural and poor educational

background, and many of their cases have been looked at

by at least on e resettlement country and rejected. The

South

birth rate at the camp has been higher

than at other

camps, partly because of the refugees' background and

partly because of

because of the reluctance of CARITAS, the Catholic

voluntary agency who were

were running the camp,

there.

to implement

Miss Dew may

a proper birth control programme

like to know that CARITAS have

another voluntary agency, the International Rescue

Committee.

now been

replaced by

Since December 1984, UNHCR has also been conducting

a special campaign to increase resettlement from Jubilee,

wi th the aim of substantially reducing the camp

This has had some success, but the

population.

population still stands at 2,200.