{"id":3457,"date":"2016-05-17T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:18:20","slug":"inke-refugee-camp-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2016\/05\/inke-refugee-camp-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Inke refugee camp visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees the world over face difficult living conditions and that is no different at the Inke camp for refugees from the Central African Republic. \u00a0We visited this camp of 20,000 registered refugees last week after our seminar at the Gbado-Gboketsa Bible Institute. \u00a0The Inke camp is only 18 kms from Gbado-Gboketsa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3454\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-3-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-image-3454\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-3-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"typical home made from UN tarps over a frame for a new arrival\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-3-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-3-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">typical home made from UN tarps over a frame for a new arrival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In order to visit the camp we had to first go to Gbadolite, 45 kms NE, to register with the Commission National pour les Refugies (CNR).\u00a0 This is the part of the Congolese government\u2019s that deals with refugees.\u00a0 Next we visited the UNHCR office to greet their director who is over all 4 refugee camps for CAR refugees in the northern part of the old Equateur province.\u00a0 After these visits and a stop at the CEUM church we were off to the camp.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3467\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/panoramas-1-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3467\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/panoramas-1-800x600-300x101.jpg\" alt=\"view of the camp\" width=\"601\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/panoramas-1-800x600-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/panoramas-1-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view of the camp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The camp is located in a 7 kilometer square area of former sobi grass. \u00a0Sobi, <em>Imperata cylindrica<\/em>, is the dominant grass in the savanna areas here.\u00a0 The following picture gives a bit of an idea what the camp looks like.\u00a0 4,000 homes like the structure above dot the area.\u00a0 As the camp was opened in June 2013, many residents have also built traditional mud and thatch structures.\u00a0 Some have put thatch over the tarp rood and others are working on more permanent buildings with adobe brick.\u00a0 The only trees we saw were papaya plants which don\u2019t give much shade.\u00a0 This place has to be hot and uncomfortable during the intense sunny days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3459\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/hand-pump-in-action-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-image-3459 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/hand-pump-in-action-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"hand pump for safe water\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/hand-pump-in-action-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/hand-pump-in-action-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">hand pump for safe water<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UNHCR worked with another agency and drilled numerous wells throughout the camp. \u00a0Each has a hand pump like this, a protected area for getting water and a drainage system out to a dry well for spillage. \u00a0Just a few meters away there is also a concrete structure, table height and width, with drainage for washing clothes. Nicely done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3461\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/soap-makers-1-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3461\" class=\"wp-image-3461 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/soap-makers-1-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"These women learned to make soap through a CWR project.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/soap-makers-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/soap-makers-1-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These women learned to make soap through a CWR project.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2015 Covenant World Relief (CWR) gave the CEUM a grant to teach women to make soap as one of the needs at the camp is for income generating activities. \u00a04 associations of 27 women each were trained. \u00a0The women explained that they make soap 3 times\/week, making 60 long bars each time. \u00a0They sell a bar for 700 FC, about $0.71. \u00a0There is good profit in it for them. \u00a0Some clients buy the bars in packages of 9 which they then resell in other markets, often after cutting them in to smaller pieces. \u00a0Pastor Bofio, the CEUM&#8217;s refugees ministry coordinator, told me that these women have gone elsewhere to teach others how to make soap. \u00a0very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/school-kids-3-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3463\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/school-kids-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"4th year primary classroom\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/school-kids-3-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/school-kids-3-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4th year primary classroom<\/p>\n<p>There are 5 buildings for the primary school in the camp. \u00a02 are nice permanent construction such as above. \u00a0The others are tarp and frame construction. \u00a0The director explained that the UNHCR only builds primary schools in the camps. \u00a0For secondary school the kids have to go outside the camp to the Congolese school, about 2 kms away on the road to the main road. \u00a0The primary school has 14 classrooms and they are all used morning and afternoon. \u00a0He said that 2,500 students attend school here. \u00a0As the refugees are from CAR they are following the CAR curriculum which is the French education system. \u00a0The teachers, themselves refugees, were teachers in CAR. In 4th year there was beautiful French written on the blackboard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3472\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-1-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3472\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3472\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"permant \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-1-800x600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">permanent structure for the health center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We visited the health center above. \u00a0It is a wonderful facility and well staffed. \u00a0There are examining rooms for women, children and men plus pregnant women and an OB ward. \u00a0The doctor present explained that they do not have wards to hospitalize people. \u00a0They can keep them in a ward for observation, but if after 2 days they are not well then they transfer them to the hospital in Gbadolite. \u00a0Next to the health center are tarp structures for training in nutrition, STDs and other public health subjects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3473\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-maternity-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3473\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3473\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-maternity-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"maternity ward\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-maternity-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/health-center-maternity-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">maternity ward<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While some of the institutions pictured above look very good, this remains a refugee camp where life is difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-4-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3477\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"housing in camp (4) [800x600]\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-4-800x600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-5-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3478\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"housing in camp (5) [800x600]\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/housing-in-camp-5-800x600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=3457&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees the world over face difficult living conditions and that is no different at the Inke camp for refugees from the Central African Republic. \u00a0We visited this camp of 20,000 registered refugees last week after our seminar at the Gbado-Gboketsa Bible Institute. \u00a0The Inke camp is only 18 kms from Gbado-Gboketsa. 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