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n Kenya, 3c-swana, -esotno and :he Sudan, -. he ieda-e
refucee assistance .rocq-a=--rCp-- t.n, screening, delfare,
educat-Ona: and settlement ad--i.s providded by a 4oint
refugee c-ttee c==-=r-sng -- e host government, .HCR and
generally othe: vountary agencies as noted. :n addition, a
secretariat is organized and run by t-he local Christian
the All Africa Council
cCunci: w:th- signi-ficant funding by
Cf 2h..-nes and the ""I J.C.. As or..anizatj-fn exists
a a -. t is not ncw
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.:- a: .. r :-...nef,.cee -­ Ser.:e, a local .rocrar- of Lutheran
cR~ eief is pro-id-ng direct set__eent assis­
-ace. Nc s-i4ar crganzat.ions exist n Mzambique or
Zaire, althouh t-.here
church concils.
are local Cathclic and Protestant
:n genera., the cin: Refugee Service coerations in
Botswana, Lesotho and the Sudan are well crganized and highly
effective, but ;reatly understaffed in both the administ-rat-ive
and ser--ice-utreach ocrtions of! their cperations.
Beyond t.he ".C. oordina.edfu-.ded -. nt Refugee­
:hrist.an Council operations, and those ""'--- voluntary
acenc'es, refugee assistance efforts are varied. They range
frc- exoer-mental :eachln to provision of to..,s doctors,
medicine, tec.hnical expertise and supplies for agricultural
settlement, handicrafts and si-ple distribution of food,
blankets and personal care items. There are volun'.&ry
agency programs in both urban and rural settlement assistance.
For th2 .cst part, local level efforts by voluntar-y
They
organizaticns are the result of their own initiatives.
are su.,ec-. to either the iediate availability of funds