LEC 10: Class Presentations

Question 1

Medical & Mental Health Services

Answer 1

Main medical facility in periphery to avoid overcrowding and allow for future expansion

1. Health posts and washing stations should be spread out
2. “Social spaces” throughout camp
3. Cultural and religious supports
4. Camp health workers
   - First aid education/ resources
   - Crisis training
5. Work with communications to get healthcare volunteers in every area
6. Education program for infectious disease prevention
   - HH
   - Vaccines
   - STD
   - Water disposal
7. Child medical support priorities
8. Counselling services from community members and HCP
9. Utilize cultural medicines

Question 2

Sanitation: Water & Waste

Answer 2

Ideas

1. Deification areas
   - Male & female
   - Culturally appropriate signage and showers for gender
2. Latrines (50 or more) hand washing stations
3. Four water points b/c 250 people per receptacle
4. Consider fresh water resources nearby or a well
5. Need water systems that carry 20 drinkable L per person per day

Question 3

Logistics and Supplies

Answer 3

• Shelter
• Power/ solar panels
• Transportation
• Money- cash on hand
• Medial supplies
• Personal products
• Educational gudiliens
• Volunteers/ paid workers

Donations

• UNICEF
• World food program
• Red Corss
• Government

Other

• Contact military for aid on sending food/ supplies
• Distribution site for logistics/ supplies: away from people/ storage, center to hand out supplies

*Need help from administration

Question 4

Food and Nutrition

Answer 4

• Utilize neighbouring grocery stores
• Plan transportation
• Rotate tents
• Given registration card with allowance, depending on number of family members
• Emergency resource allocation of traded grains from friendly states. 2% goes straight to refugee camp
• Community gardens
• Utilize Canadian organizations to supply nutritional supplements as needed
• Would need close collaboration with water, security, and logistics

Question 5

Communication (Internal and External)

Answer 5

Internal

• Walkie talkies (solar charged)
• Intercom system for camp alerts/ updates
• Zone system where refuges can attend meetings and express concerns and opinions to a representative
• Representative engage in report-style communication with other zone representative (morning and evening)

External

• Community tent with TVs or radios to keep up with world affairs
• Phones available in each zone with maximum time and schedule
• Contact with military and global rescue

Question 6

Education and Social Services

Answer 6

Social Services

• Hygiene packages
• Food
• Clean water (work with water and sanitation)
• Helping refugees access health services
• Activities which encourage refugees to live and work together
• Help reunite family members
• Involve community members in decision making

Education
- Teach English
- Access to adult technology/ vocational training
- Structured school system to make like as normal as possible for youth
Work with mental health services to improve access and provide health education

Question 7

Housing and Infrastructure

Answer 7

Site Selection

• Water: close proximity, easy access
• Multiple sites to avoid effects of overcrowding (disease, avoid conflict between locals and refugees)
• Safe location: away from borders, close to facilities to provide essential goods/ services
• Health facility to provide services
• Near road/ highway
• Adequate energy, fule, other resources

Site Organization

• 30m2/ persone
• Divide sites based on cultural preferences
• Designated headquarters (security, first aid, reception, food stations , communication, *long term acute services located on edge of camp)

Infrastrucutre

• Local material
• Agency material
• Tents (temporarily)
• Plastic sheeting

Question 8

Energy & Power Supply

Answer 8

Focus: Long term and sustainable so would include education for maintenance

1. Lighting (LED)
   - Solar lamps
   - Small appliances
   - Street lamps
   - Renewable reservoir
2. Cooking/ Kitchen/ Housing
   - Sustainable/ renewable feul
   - Biogas (possible health issue)
   - Generators (common for all areas)
3. Heating/ Cooling
   - Solar beating
   - Hydro power
4. Sanitation
   - Transport
5. Hospital/ Medical
   - Diesel (fridge/ appliances)
6. School
   - Natural light (day)

Question 9

Security and Policing

Answer 9

• 15 to 20 guards
• 1 or 2 ex-military

1. Hierarchy
   - 2 guards per quadrent
   - 4 guards at entry and armed
   - 5 guards around the perimeter (armed)
2. Refugees disarmed upon arrival
3. Fenced off area with point of entry
4. Base (for organization) and two holding cells
5. Entry base (communication with central base, use of radios and walkie-talkies)
6. Camp organized in quadrents
7. Central building to hold weapons
8. Four watch towers on edge of each quadrent
9. Proficent gate screening (water)
10. Mass evacuation (another secret fence opening)
11. Air horns for shower to avoid rape
12. Male and female areas (both male and female guards)

Question 10

Legal, Registration, and Administration

Answer 10

Legal

• Provide training to camp workers
• Set guidelines to numerous traffic routes
• Personal document records
• International law

Registration

• Multiple stations inside camp
• Support services available; social work, translator
• Once checked in with documentation, card given to have as ID

Administration

• One central secure building
• Secure financial aid from other organizations
• Workers, working on helping refugees secure further documentation
• Keeping copies of documentation safe and secure
• Quantitive and qualitative indicators for data collection