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A Summary of Points made in Oxfam Report
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Annex C
Physical living conditions Closed Camps
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The closed camps are acceptable short-term accommodation. The large huts in which they live are cold in winter and hot in summer. The medical facilities in the camps appear to be clean and adequate.
2.
The overwhelming impression of all closed camps is that they are prisons. Even moving within the camps involves an endless unlocking and locking of gates. Refugees are called on a Tannoy system.
3.
The closed camp environment is destroying the traditional family unit.
4.
There is little privacy.
A family of five
live in a bedspace 8 ft by 6 ft by 3 ft. The refugees cannot stand up in it.
Physical living conditions
5.
Open camps
The two open camps are much dirtier than the closed camps.
Jubilee is particularly dark and run
down.
6.
The refugees in the open camps have all been there for three and a half years or more, and have been able to settle in.
7.
The Housing Department Transit Centre in Tuen Mun is comparable to that provided in open camps. The difference is that the average length of stay in the Housing Department Transit Centre is two months.
Education
8.
There is a genuine and concerted effort to improve the standard of education provided to refugee children. UNHCR's work on education, particularly in boosting the teaching of English and improving co-ordination between the various agencies has been impressive.
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