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March
10, 2008
Dear
Educator,
Teachers' Corner brings the latest refugee news from around the world to your
classroom. The UN Refugee Agency's (UNHCR) E-alert is created
for educators like you who are teaching about refugees, human
rights, and tolerance. In this update:
1. Nepal Refugee Camp Razed by Fire
2. News to Use in the Classroom
1. Nepal Refugee Camp Razed by Fire
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| A bird's-eye view of the devastation caused by fire at Goldhap refugee camp. © UNHCR
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Aid
has been pouring into Goldhap refugee camp in eastern Nepal since
a devastating fire last weekend which almost totally destroyed
the camp, but there is still an urgent need for relief supplies
for the thousands of refugees from Bhutan who lost their homes
and belongings.
Saturday's
fire razed 95 per cent of the camp to the ground and left most
of its 9,770 refugees homeless.
Much
has been done in the last week with the help of the Nepalese government,
UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the local communities,
including providing emergency shelters, water tanks and temporary
toilets, food rations and cash grants.
Refugees
have been constructing temporary shelters and the most vulnerable
are living temporarily in a camp school which was not affected
by the fire.
Some
108,000 refugees from Bhutan have been living in seven camps in
eastern Nepal for nearly two decades after fleeing ethnic tensions
in Bhutan in the early 1990s. Within months, the first of at least
60,000 Bhutanese refugees will be resettled in the United States,
and the remaining will be resettled here over the next few years.
Order
a free copy of UNHCR's DVD "Bhutanese Refugees" and
factsheet.
2. News to use
Chad: UNHCR
moves vulnerable Sudanese refugees to inland Chad camps
The
UN refugee agency has begun moving inland the most vulnerable
among a group of several thousand recently arrived Sudanese refugees
on the eastern Chad border.
Learn
more about the Chad/Darfur refugee crisis.
South
Africa : UNHCR
lets refugee children talk about the special problems they face
Life
for any refugee can be difficult; life for a child refugee is
doubly difficult. As one young refugee told the UN refugee agency:
"We are always living in fear."
Learn more about
refugee children.
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