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Photo Credit: Refugees International/ Larry Thompson
03/15/2005
Most of the Chin we met in Kuala Lumpur, the jungle, and the highlands told us that they live in makeshift settlements like this and sleep in the forest to avoid being apprehended by the police. One group of about 40 Chin refugees we met in Kuala Lumpur told us they sleep in parks or the woods around golf courses. About 300 Chin men live in this settlement and are employed irregularly as construction workers. Their huts have been burned down by the police four times in the last few years, but as the Chin own little beyond a few cooking pots, plastic sheeting, and the clothes on their backs they rebuild quickly. The Chin all told us that their primary need is protection from the police; they also cited lack of access to medical care as a major problem.
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Reginan Nichole Huck, 23, shows some of the photos from her
show called 'Life Inside'. The photos are on display at the Club at the Exchange
on 2431 8th Avenue. Photograph by : Don Healy, The Leader-Post |
Ethnic Karen refugees have fled military defeats and persecution at the hands of the Burmese government. Now they live in refugee camps, and mostly in limbo. Read Full Entry
 Karen refugees.
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| A Burmese refugee camp. Photo : Odile Minichetti/ECHO |
For each doll that you purchase, another doll is donated to the nursery schools in the camps for the enjoyment of the children.
WEAVE believes that the empowerment of women and development of their status benefits the whole community. They give women an opportunity to improve themselves through education, confidence building and skill development. WEAVE encourages women to take on leadership responsibilities and share skills.
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Land Photos from a Burmese refugee village on the Thai Border |
Mon Refugee in Thai-Burma border
