OXFAM
INTRODUCTION
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In May 1986, Oxfam Hong Kong published a report, 'How Hong Kong Cares for Vietnamese Refugees. The report recognised that Hong Kong has done a good job and that no refugee has been refused permission to land here.
The report also suggested that the closed camp policy be reviewed. It recommended a number of improvements in facilities, and expressed particular concern over the quality of education and training given to refugees, particularly children. The report also noted that the present closed camp environment was having a detrimental effect on families.
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Over the past six months, Oxfam Hong Kong has been promoting the report's main recommendations. It has taken up various points with the Hong Kong Government, met the UMELCO Security Panel and tried to identify ways of providing support to the various agencies working with refugees. far, grants totalling $52,556 have been given to four centres, mainly for educational and recreational work. product adviser from Oxfam UK has visited the closed camps for discussions on work training and handicraft programmes.
Overseas, we have stressed the need for more resettlement places. Our efforts have centred on Britain, and we have taken up the issue with the British government and various political and church groups. A letter published in The Times in September (Appendix A) led to considerable UK media coverage of the refugees' plight.
Our first report was chiefly concerned with improving life. for the men, women and children who live in Hong Kong's refugee centres. The aim of this paper is to address the wider issues the continuing exodus from Vietnam, the status of the refugees, and the possibilities of resettlement and repatritation.
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