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Somewhere along the Thailand border, we arrived, lived and anguished in one of those refugees camps...We existed among many thousands other Cambodian refugees, in a Vietnamese refugee camp among other huge refugee camps, like a tiny island in the vast archipelago, a floating debris in a sea of inhumanity. There we lived, prayed, and survived probably one of the harshest time in our lives.

These are only the pictures in our possession, and our stories. If you stumble across this blog site, please post any pictures, stories for our children to understand how their parents escaped, have lived, and are building a life as they have today....

Send stories and pictures to hungfng2.vnlr@blogger.com and they will be posted here for all to see.

Transit Camps

The refugees at the border camps eventually got interviewed, accepted, and settled in a third country: Australia, Denmark, Malaysia, French, Sweden, and many others. Many got accepted by the US. All the refugees who were accepted for resettlement were transported to Panatnikhom transit camp for a month or so to complete the paper work, and to be screened for health before flying to the final destinations.

For those who went to the US, they had to go to either Bataan or Galang to study English and to learn about the life in America

Below are the links to the stories and pictures of the camps that had become part of our journey to freedom. Gaylord Barr captured those moments at Pulau Galang and Bataan when he worked at the camps as an English teacher. Trinh Huy Chuong, a refugee from border camp, had the luxury of a camera to capture the pictures at Panatnikhom during the short time he was there.

Thank you Gaylord and Chuong for sharing these priceless memory.

- Pulau Galang Refugee Camp - Indonesia
- Bataan - Philippines Refugees Processing Center (PRPC)

- Panatnikhom

November 13, 2013

We once were there

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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The children of typhoon Hayan
Photo courtesy of Metro News- UK

The Philippines- the place most of us had once lived. It had become part of our journey as land or boat
refugees. The land had embraced us, had given us a place called home, albeit briefly, on our way to freedom and prosperity. We all have fond memory about the Philippines, about the short time we were there...

The Philippines is now suffered the most devastated disaster. Its people is suffering, just as we suffered. We can all relate to it more or less.

Could we return part of the favor it once gave us? Please donate to typhoon Hayan survivors, please help them survive and get back to their life, as the Philippines once did to us.

Please use one of the organization below to donate, to help them help the survivors of the disaster, just as they did to us when we were the refugees.

The International Rescue Committee
Médecins Sans Frontières
Catholic Relief Services
The American Red Cross
The Philippine Red Cross
UNICEF
World Food Programme

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Unknown said...: Philippines không ngược đãi người tỵ nạn Việt nam, không có hải tặc, không có nạn hà hiếp dân tỵ nạn như tại Thái lan hay Hồng kông...Tuy đất nước này không giàu có và phát triển như Thái Lan, HK, Singapore, Nam Dương, Mã Lai....nhưng người Phi có thịnh tình và cảm thông với người tỵ nạn rất nhiều...nhất là người Việt Tỵ nạn...Tôi không được may mắn để định cư tại Hoa kỳ như nguyện vọng thứ nhất của mình, để có được cơ hội quá cảnh ở Phi như những bạn bè khác...nhưng nghe và thấy thì cũng đủ....Phi luật Tân có nội chiến và gần đây cũng như Việt Nam mình bị Tàu cộng gây hấn tranh chiếm giành Hải thổ ..Thiết nghĩ người Việt tỵ nạn mình nên thông cảm và giúp đỡ những nạn nhân sống sót cơn Đại bão Hayan vừa qua, thấy người gặp nạn thì đã nên cứu rồi...Huống chi họ là ân nhân của mình mà....Nhìn những phóng sự của CNN, CBS, CBC... mà thấy tội nghiệp người Phi quá...nhất là trẻ em.

Mình thống thiết kêu gọi anh chị em mình, nhịn chút quà mọn, gởi tặng góp phần cứu trợ cho người bạn nay gặp nạn. Có lẽ đây là dịp để chúng ta có dịp đền bù lại chăng???; November 15, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Unknown said...: Anh Chuong,

Hoa Chay day, anh viet rat co ly, em cung moi vua dong gop cho mot chuong trinh cua Red Cross International for this cause. mail me.

Hoa Chay OPD.
chuong.luong@optusnet.com.au; January 7, 2014 at 2:03 AM

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