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36. The Market at the center of PRPC. Operated by Filipinos from Morong, it sold drinks, cigarettes, canned goods, rice, vegetables, coffee, fruit, and ballut - 

Khu chợ gần trung tâm trại. Đa số người bán hàng là người Phi. Dân tị nạn có thể mua đồ cần dùng tại đây. Người Phi thích ăn hột vịt lộn nên thứ này rất dễ tìm mua ở đây

37. Walking between Neighborhoods

Quang cảnh một vùng PRPC

38. A food vendor

Không biết bán thứ gì trong thùng

39. Buddhist Youth camping next to the camp

Sinh hoạt Hướng Đạo tại PRPC. 

Đây là quang cảnh khu rừng núi của cuộc cắm trại.

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That Luang Monument built by Laos refugees

Đài That Luang do người tị nạn lào xây dưng trong trại

Selling homemade pastries

Bán bánh nướng nhà làm

Laotian women bargaining for a pig being sold by a local woman (in blue).

Buôn bán trong khu người Khơ Me. Người đàn bà Phi đang chào hàng cho dân tị nạn Khơ Me

Protecting themselves from the sun

Xài dù chủ yếu để che nắng

Posing at the Vietnamese Memorial

Một em trai trước đài tưởng niệm miền Nam Việt Nam

 Women selling household goods before departure 

Họp chợ ven đường

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Knitting in front of billet 430-J, meaning the billet was located in Neighborhood 4, building 30, unit J

Behind one of the billets.

A papaya plant takes at least 9 months to yield fruit - longer than the typical 6-month stay of most refugees. These might have been planted by people who had to stay longer than usual, or just planted for the next arrivals

The main administrative offices at the center of PRPC, Freedom Plaza

A typical billet. 

It could house up to 10 people. There was an "attic" upstairs that could sleep 4 to 6 people. The bed (a wooden platform) downstairs could sleep 4, and there was room inside for 2 hammocks.

People decorated their walls with old newspapers, calendars, and pages from magazines.

Another temple at PRPC.

This one was devoted to Phat Giao Hoa Hao, a Vietnamese branch of Buddhism

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At PRPC, the adult ESL program was operated by the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) and was funded by the U.S. Department of State. Classes for children were operated by World Relief.  At the time, they formed the largest ESL program in the world.

The Assistant Teacher (AT) Program

'AT World' was located near the Market. The ATs were English-speaking refugee volunteers who served as classroom translators. One of the ATs, a young artist named Luu Kien Dung, adorned some of the exterior walls with traditional Chinese-style paintings.  They quickly became the backdrop for many photos.

'Tricycles' and mango trees - the road connecting Phase I with Phase II

Charcoal
 

A building water tank was filled once each day - sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. People hurried to bathe before it emptied.

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Young Laotians

The weekly food distribution

A statue, Neighborhood 1 - commemorating the escape of the Khmer from their homeland.

The Cao Dai Temple

 Cooking fires behind the billets

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In front of the Cambodian temple. 

Refugees buying or selling wood.  Sometimes the charcoal distribution wasn't enough.

As part of the weekly food distribution, each barrack's 'food leader' would ration fish, rice, fruit, meat, vegetables, etc. according to the number of people in a household

"Neighborhood 11", the camp's cemetery

In Vietnam's Cao Dai religion, devotees honor Jesus, Buddha, and even Victor Hugo. The divine, all-seeing eye symbolizes God.

The Vietnamese Memorial - memorializing the fall of South Vietnam to the armies of the North.

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The water tank for each barrack was filled and turned on at a specific time each day. People went here to wash or carry water to the shower/toilet room. Men and children would bathe right next to the tank. Since a tank could empty quickly, some people would buy their own containers of water for use during the day

Two Filipino men in camp to trade with the refugees.

The refugees would trade extra rice, metal, plastic, clothing...

Just out of class

One of several temples built by the refugees