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1.6
Main Recommendations
Accommodation in closed
centres should be improved to
provide more privacy.
Refugees should be allowed to
cook and eat their own food.
Comments/Follow-up Action
Improved privacy in the present
closed centres is not
practicable because of lack of
space. The increasing
population density caused by
the recent upsurge in arrivals
aggravates the situation.
However, in planning for the
construction of a fourth closed
centre, the type of
accommodation provided will aim
to offer a greater degree of privacy and family life.
Cannot be done due to limited
space, fire hazard, hygiene and
security problems (cooking
utensils can be easily turned into offensive weapons).
However, the setting-up of a
mini-supermarket and a canteen/coffee shop run by the refugees in every closed centre
has been encouraged. Thus refugees can buy and cook Vietnamese-style dishes and
have a choice of food.
More exposure to outside world eg more trips outside
the closed centre for refugee
children or allow outside
people to visit camps to sell
food, clothes, toys, etc.
All along closed centre
In
children have been allowed to
make outside trips as part of their education programmes. addition since 1982/83 there
has been a mini-supermarket in
each closed centre run by the
voluntary agencies there. A
canteen was also set up in each
closed centre in 1986.
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