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This is a photo of Vietnamese "boat people" arriving in Songkhla camp, Thailand. There ar e a number of people on the boat and others in the water to guide it to shore.

This is a photo of three refugees in a camp in Thailand looking at a wall of photos of unaccompanied minors, trying to find their relatives.

This is a photo of Hill Tribe refugees in Thailand sitting on chairs in a crude shelter. MCC refugee programs help these people.

This is a photo of Vietnamese refugees at Songkhla Camp preparing food on a grounded boat.

This is a photo of a woman and child from Laos in a Thailand refugee camp.The woman is squatting by a pot and pail. There are several other people in the background. Although women refugees far outnumber men, refugee programs have traditionally been targeted towards males.

This is a photo of refugees in a Somali camp receiving MCC corn. There are several round dwellings made of straw or cloth around the people.

This is a photo of returning refugees in 1972. They found a supply of MCC blankets and canned chicken awaiting them.

This is a photo of a tent city for 750 Cuban refugees under the I-95 freeway near the centre of Miami. The refugees had been housed in the Orange Bowl until football season neared. The government released them from its detention centres but they had nowhere else to go.

This is a photo of a man pointing at a corrugated iron shack. There are some children sitting in the shade of a low wall by a mud house. Residents in this village have resisted being "removed" far from their homes. The corrugated shacks were set up by people forced to leave their villages and were invited by residents of this village to set up homes here rather than go to the assigned resettlement area.

This is a photo of a Kampuchean child, born in Surin Refugee Camp in Thailand, in the arms of a man. Refugees spend months and sometimes years in the camps waiting for resettlement or repatriation. A few face the prospect of becoming permanent "camp People".

This is a photo of Somali refugee children sitting outside the grass hut of their settlement. The refugees construct these dwellings in the same manner they did in their former nomadic lifestyles.

This is a photo of Haitian refugees waiting outside the office of HACAD, an agency MCC is working with in Miami.

This is a photo of three Lao women and a child in a refugee camp in Thailand. They are sewing traditional needlework. They are members of the Hmong tribe, who left Laos in large numbers because of unhappiness over Lao government policies.

This is a photo of Raymond Martin, representing the Mennonite Church Southeast Convention, and Don Sensenig, MCC refugee resettlement coordinator, discussing MCC U. S. response to the influx of Caribbean refugees.

This is a photo of a refugee child sitting in a hammock.