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Global Education  /  Teaching Tools  /  Global learning quests  /  Refugees  /  Locate

Refugees Learning Quest: Locate

Background resources

Refugees
Visit a Refugee Camp
14 million refugees and up to 25 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) live in temporary shelters throughout the world. Medecins Sans Frontieres USA takes us on on virtual tour of a refugee camp to learn about the basic of shelter, food, water, sanitation, and health care and hear personal sto...
Anatomy of a Refugee Camp
Explore a typical refugee camp and examine its many parts. Every camp is different since every situation is different. In most cases proper design of a camp isn't possible because refugees have already settled on a site. In this case aid agencies look at how to improve the camp or decide if the popu...
Road to Refuge
This special report from the BBC tells the stories behind the statistics, using first-person testimonies and in-depth interviews to trace the journey ...
Beyond The Fire
Beyond The Fire, introduces the real life stories of 15 teenagers, now living in the U.S., who have survived war in seven war zones. These stories tel...
Refugee Journey Photo Match (World Vision)
Fleeing for safety from persecution is a frightening journey. Explore the possible refugee journeys: leaving home, on the road, seeking refuge, return...
Refugees Video Clip (World Vision)
This introductory video clip about refugees filmed in 1995 from World Vision describes refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and why people...
Sudan
Sudan (UNHCR)
Background information on the refugee situation in Sudan from UNHCR the UN refugee agency. This site includes news, operations, statistics, funding, analysis, policy and maps of Sudan....
Sudan: A Nation Divided
A BBC News In Depth special on Sudan presenting eye witness reports, feature articles, video footage, photographs and analysis on the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Darfur, Sudan....

Water and sanitation specialist
Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages
The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced People.SPHERE Minimum Standards for Water and Sanitation; UNHCR Guide to Emergency Water Provision fo...
Sphere Handbook
The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...
Sanitation (WaterAid)
Four out of ten people in the world do not have somewhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. This brochure from WaterAid (UK) provides an introduction to sanitation issues and how inadequate facilities lead to health, economic and social problems; and provides case studies from Zambia, Pakistan and Malawi....
Sudan: Providing Essential Sanitation in the Field
An Oxfam information sheet about design issues for latrines in a refugee camp in Sudan. Latrines (toilets) are a vital tool in the fight against cholera and other diseases....

Food specialist
Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages
The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced People.SPHERE Minimum Standards for Water and Sanitation; UNHCR Guide to Emergency Water Provision fo...
Sphere Handbook
The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...
Darfur Logistical Challenges Video
A 3 minute sample of broadcast-quality video filmed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Darfur for use by news organisations. Shows the extensive flooding as a result of rain, with bogged and overturned trucks causing problems for food supply. The World Food Programme is forced to drop food by air, and villagers cart the heavy bags by donkey. Imag...
Rebuilding Lives in Sudan
A report from the World Food Programme and BBC News service describes how, away from Darfur, people in Sudan are rebuilding their lives after two decades of war....
Refugee realities: Your rights in crisis
The Refugee Realities website provides information about an interactive simulation exercise that puts you in the position of a refugee or internally displaced person trying to find safety and a long term solution. Oxfam has also developed a mobile phone game, the Game for Change about Aissa, a refugee who has to flee conflict in Darfur with her fou...

Health care specialist
Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan
Information from the World Health Organization about the health of refugees in Darfur, Sudan including statistics, photo essays, video footage, media reports about health, disease outbreaks and deaths....
Sanitation (WaterAid)
Four out of ten people in the world do not have somewhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. This brochure from WaterAid (UK) provides an introduction to sanitation issues and how inadequate facilities lead to health, economic and social problems; and provides case studies from Zambia, Pakistan and Malawi....
Refugee Camp
There are two categories of disease that are likely to appear in a refugee camp. The most common non-epidemic diseases are malnutrition, acute respiratory infections (like pneumonia), diarrhea, and malaria. There are also deadly diseases that can turn into epidemics, such as measles, meningitis, dysentery, and cholera....
Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages
The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced People.SPHERE Minimum Standards for Water and Sanitation; UNHCR Guide to Emergency Water Provision fo...
Refugee Camp: Shelter
How are refugee/IDP camps established? How are they designed to minimize health risks? What kinds of shelter are constructed in a camp? What are the main objectives of providing shelter? What criteria are used in site selection for a camp? Camp or integration into the local population: Advantages and disadvantages?...
Forced Migration Online (FMO)
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Topics include: What is Forced Migration? Types of forced migrants: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, Development displacees, Environmental and disaster displacees, Smuggled people and Tr...
Sphere Handbook
The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...

Shelter specialist
Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages
The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced P...
Refugee Camp: Shelter
How are refugee/IDP camps established? How are they designed to minimize health risks? What kinds of shelter are constructed in a camp? What are the main objectives of providing shelter? What criteria are used in site selection for a camp? Camp or in...
Sphere Handbook
The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water...
Forced to Flee
Case study of a young woman, Asha living in a tent at the Breidjing refugee camp in Chad yet yearning for her traditional cool mud brick home in West Darfur, Sudan....
Crisis in Darfur / Chad
News from Oxfam UK about the situation in Darfur and Chad where people have been forced to flee their homes and are living in makeshift shelters in camps or on the edge of villages in Darfur and across the border in eastern Chad....
Abu Shouk camp in Northern Darfur Photo Gallery
Slideshow of images from Oxfam showing Abu Shouk refugee camp in Northern Darfur. Images include: distribution of nonfood items, women and children, crops, shelters, and latrines....
Health care in Sudan: Red Cross international project
Since early 2003, over 2 million people have been left homeless because of ongoing an conflict in Sudan. About 200,000 Sudanese refugees have sought shelter and relief across the border in Chad. The Red Cross aims to raise money for much needed medic...

Refugee representative
Darfur Drawn: the Conflict in Darfur Through Children's Eyes
When Human Rights Watch researchers Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault visited Chad in February 2005 to assess the issues of protection and sexual violence in the refugee camps along the Darfur/Chad border they collected drawings from schoolchildren from seven refugee camps and the border town o...
Crisis in Sudan Report (World Vision Radio)
Radio audio interview with Dave Coddington, reporting on his visit to makeshift refugee camps along the border of Chad. (Media file runs for 4 minutes 17 seconds)...
Sudan: A Nation Divided
A BBC News In Depth special on Sudan presenting eye witness reports, feature articles, video footage, photographs and analysis on the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Darfur, Sudan....
Crisis in Darfur / Chad
News from Oxfam UK about the situation in Darfur and Chad where people have been forced to flee their homes and are living in makeshift shelters in camps or on the edge of villages in Darfur and across the border in eastern Chad....





 Locating resources

You can find information about refugee camps from a variety of sources including books, magazines, videos, television programs, news reports, online databases, websites, organisations and personal contacts.

Remember that for this learning quest you are particularly interested in the management of refugee camps and the relationships between refugees and the communities into which they move.

Libraries and databases

Keyword search
refugee* AND camp*

Phrase search
"refugee camp"

Subject heading search
Refugees
Refugees Biography
Refugees Civil rights
Refugees Law and legislation
Refugees Nutrition
Refugees Social aspects
Immigration and emigration

Fiction

Subject heading search
Refugees - Fiction

 Links
[file] Refugees video clip (WVA)
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