Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Hình xưa Trại Tị Nạn Bataan Philippines

Tình cờ tìm được hình ảnh :

Trại Tị Nạn Bataan Philippines ,Nơi mà Ròm từng sống qua thời 80/81.

Ròm ôm hết hình ảnh và chú thích kèm theo về đây .

Một số hình ảnh có chú thích tiếng Việt .Ròm không rành tiếng Anh ,đành chịu thua hehe.

Ròm chôm chôm của thiên hạ ... thì tui chỉa chỉa lại gọi là "của Thiên trả Địa" :-)
Mặc dù tui ra đi vào dịp 30/4 nhưng có nhiều bạn bè thân nhân là thuyền nhân
khốn khổ, là nạn nhân của VC, có nhiều kỷ niệm thập tử nhất sinh trên bước đường
chạy trốn thiên đàng CS. Cỏm ơn công khó của Ròm đã khệ nệ bưng, vác về

Duc H. Vu (dân chôm chỉa)

Bataan Philippines Refugee Processing Center - PRPC

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Gaylord Barr at PRPC in 1985

A typical day at PRPC. A pictorial memory by Gaylord Barr

" PRPC, located in the mountains of Bataan, was about a 3-hour bus ride from Manila. The PRPC opened in 1980 and closed around 1995. I worked there from 1984 to 1988. More than 400,000 Indochinese refugees (Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, ethnic Chinese, and some other minority groups) passed through its gates. Almost all of them had already been accepted for resettlement in the U.S., and almost all of them had already spent months and years in first asylum camps in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. During their stay in the PRPC, the refugees underwent final processing, health screenings, and studied English and U.S. culture. Most of the photos in this album were taken on one day...the day before I left. They're not the most beautiful, and they don't include ceremonies or friends' faces. I took the photos to remember the look of the camp. What the photos can't express is what the PRPC felt like...the amazing mix of languages, backgrounds, and cultures, the old hatreds and loyalties, the night sounds from the forest, the steam rising from the earth after a sudden downpour, the sound of students repeating an English phrase, the sound of prayers from a temple at sunset..."
~Gaylord Barr~

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr

The monk and other refugees were checking the list at the departure building

A classroom in session

Passing time

Refugees walking along the road between the neighborhoods.
This road connects neighborhood in the south site (8,9,10) to the neighborhoods in the north site (2,3..6,7)

Image of Buddha on a tombstone in the cemetery

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (2)

Children play outside their billets

The water tank in each barrack is filled with tap water that is turned on at specific time each day. People go here to wash or carry water to the shower room. Men use to take shower right next to the tank. Since water in the tank could be empty quickly, some people buy their own water container to store water for use during the day

Children play outside their billets.

The two men are most likely Filipinos who come in the camp to trade with the refugees.
The refugees can sell anything, from extra rice they have, to metal, plastic, clothing...

They just get out of the class.
The umbrella is usually to shield the sun, not the rain

The entrance to a Vietnamese Buddhist temple.
This temple is one of several temples built by the refugees

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (3)

In front of the Cambodian temple.

The refugees probably collect wood to sell.

The refugees receive a ration of coal for cooking, but some families may need more and therefore the trade

Food is distributed every week. The ration includes rice, meat, egg, chicken, fish, vegetables, and sometimes fresh fruit.

Neighborhood 11, as the cemetery is called

The "Cao Dai" temple, another Vietnamese religion that worship all famous, divine people: Jesus Christ, Buddha, even Victor Hugo. The eye symbolizes God. A divine eye who could see all thing

Vietnamese memorial. A memorial to commemorate the lost of South Vietnam to the North, an event that causes people to flee the country

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (4)

Weekly food ration sometimes includes fresh fruit such as banana, and pineapple

A Khmer sculpture in front of Neighborhood 1 in the background.

The Divine Eye symbolizes Gof of Cao Dai religion

Smoke come from the kitchen area in the backside of every billets.

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (5)

Children at the ESL classroom funded by World Relief Corporation (WRC)

At PRPC, the ESL program was operated by the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) and was funded by the U.S. Department of State.A similar ESL program for children was funded by the WRC

Teacher Assistance (TA) building

AT World building was located near the market, across the field and street. It was built for AT training around 1986.Gaylord Barr commissioned a refugee named Dung to paint the painting on the end of the building ( to the left in the photo). It depicts Chinese-style chickens in a bamboo grove "The painting became one of those spots that people used for a photo backdrop" (information from Gaylord)

The traysikels
The friendly motorized sidecars are ready to take anyone for a ride.

The mangrove tress are on both side of the road

The charcoal.

These are either part of the weekly ration of cooking fuel, or belong to some vendor

Dip bath at the building water tank.

The water tank is filled once each day. Some times it is in the morning, sometimes it is in the afternoon. People flock to it at the filling time since water is plentiful, and can be empty quickly later

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (6)

Knitting to pass time.

The hammock in front of a billet is a favorite place to spend time during the day. Inside it's either too hot or too crowded. The number 430-J identifies the billet as in neighborhood 4, building 30, unit J

The activities in the back of the billets.

The papaya plant takes at least 9 months to yield fruits, longer than typical 6-month stay for most refugees. These might be planted by people who had to stay longer than usual, or just plant and forget!

The main office at the center of PRPC, the Freedom Plaza

A typical billet.

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

People glue all sort of newspaper, magazine to the wall to either decorate or to somehow "renew" the wall.

Another temple at PRPC.

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

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (7)

That Luang monument built by Laos refugees, one of the most ornated landmarks in PRPC.

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

Home made bakery

Bán bánh nướng nhà làm

Trading in front of a Cambodian billet, as evidence by the sarong wear by the women.

The Phillipino woman in blue dress was showing the pig to the would-be buyers.

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

The umbrella to shield the sun

Xài dù chủ yếu để che nắng

Pose for the picture.

The memorial built by the Vietnamese to mourn the loss of the South to the North.

Một em trai trước đài tưởng niệm miền Nam Việt Nam

Impromptu market by the roadside.

Họp chợ ven đường

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (8)

36. The market at the center of PRPC. This market is mostly run by Phillipino who set up shop inside to sell drink, cigarrett, café, groceries, 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 the neighborhood

Quang cảnh một vùng PRPC

38.Selling some kind of food in the bucket.

Không biết bán thứ gì trong thùng

39. Boy Scout go camping.

Sinh hoạt Hướng Đạo tại PRPC.

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

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (7)

That Luang monument built by Laos refugees, one of the most ornated landmarks in PRPC.

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

Home made bakery

Bán bánh nướng nhà làm

Trading in front of a Cambodian billet, as evidence by the sarong wear by the women.

The Phillipino woman in blue dress was showing the pig to the would-be buyers.

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

The umbrella to shield the sun

Xài dù chủ yếu để che nắng

Pose for the picture.

The memorial built by the Vietnamese to mourn the loss of the South to the North.

Một em trai trước đài tưởng niệm miền Nam Việt Nam

Impromptu market by the roadside.

Họp chợ ven đường

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (8)

36. The market at the center of PRPC. This market is mostly run by Phillipino who set up shop inside to sell drink, cigarrett, café, groceries, ballut -

37. Walking the neighborhood

Quang cảnh một vùng PRPC

38.Selling some kind of food in the bucket.

Không biết bán thứ gì trong thùng

39. Boy Scout go camping.

Sinh hoạt Hướng Đạo tại PRPC.

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

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (9)

41: A group of refugees posed for the picture
Những khuôn mặt tị nạn

42: The rice field as looked down from the camp
Đồng lúa nhìn từ trại xuống

43: Communal toilette doubled up as shower room for women.
Phòng vệ sinh và phòng tắm chung cho mỗi dãy nhà

44 : Posing in front of That Lang memorial built by Lao refugees
2 người tị nạn trước tưng đài That Luong

45: Food distribution is done weekly. This time the refugees get fresh pinapple and fish
Ngày phân phát thực phẩm

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (10)

46: The statue in front of neighborhood 1 is built by Cambodian refugees. It depicts a couple escapes their country with their children and belonging.

Một tượng đài ở vùng 1 do dân Cambodian làm

47: A simple altar with wild flower in the coke bottle
Một bàn thờ ở khu 4

48: Volleyball without the net. The refugees will find anything to enterntain themselves while waiting to depart to the settlement country
Các em đang chơi volley trong lòng đường

49: A tombstone in the camp cemetary, or "neighrborhood 11" as it is referred by the refugees

Một nhôi mộ ở nghĩa địa mà dân tị nạn thường gọi là vùng 11, thay vì gọi là nghĩa địa

50: This woman is ready her belonging to depart the camp. She seems to have extraordinary amount of belonging as other refugees very often do not have much to carry with them.
The label has the name and the T number. This T number is the case ID given to each refugee or each family by the UNHCR
Người đàn bà đang chuẩn bị đồ đi định cư. Thường thì dân tị nạn không có nhiều đồ như thế.

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (11)

51: Smiling for the camera. Hammock is ubiquitous in the camp.

Cười tươi chụp hình.

52: Posing for the picture in front of a billet

Người đàn ông trước căn hộ

53: Entrance to a Cambodian temple

Cửa vào chùa người Khmer

54: A simple altar with wild flower

Một bàn thờ thô sơ

55: Makeshift stall at the market

Họp chợ

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (12)

56: These goats might belong to the refugees, but they could belong to the Filipinos too

Dê của dân tị nạn?

57: The only evangelical church in PRPC

Nhà thờ Tin Lành trong trại

58: Impromptu market by the roadside.

Họp chợ ven đường

59: Another view of the traysikel. The bus stopat right is where the refugees would be picked up or dropped off for the English or cultural classes.

Xe lôi trong trại. Bảng trạm xe buýt bên vệ đường

60: The backside of the billets. The oild drum is a necessity for most family there, the thing they'll spend money on first. Refugee can buy it whole, or cut in half (cheaper of course) to store water.

Phía sau gian nhà là nơi nấu nướng giặt dũ, phơi đồ. Những thùng phuy chưa nước là vật dụng tối cần thiết cho gia đình tị nạn, đặc biệt gia đình có phụ nữ hay trẻ em.

Dân tị nạn mua thùng này nguyên thùng hay cắt đôi, rẻ hơn, nhưng chứa nước ít hơn

Pictures of Bataan PRPC by Gaylord Barr (13)

61: Hammock is the most ubiquitous item. People like to hang it outside simply because it's cooler, and there is room outside. However, there is no sleeping in the hammock outside after 10PM curfew.
Dân tỵ nạn thích giặng võng bên ngoài, vừa mát vừa rộng rãi. Chỉ ngồi ban ngày, 10 giờ khuya thì không ai được ở ngoài. Tất cả phải vô bên trong

62: One of many colorful jeepneys. Jeepneys are the most popular mode of transportation in Phillippines. These are Jeeps used by the American troops during World War II, the Filipinos add the body and benches to it. 20 people can cram inside easily , not very comfortable though
Xe chở khách thông dụng ở Phi. Đây là xe jeep của lính mỹ thời Đệ Nhị Thế Chiến, họ đóng thùng xe gắn lên, chở được 20 người bên trong dễ dàng

63: Teachers and Assistant teachers are having a meeting in a gazebo at the AT World building
Một cuộc họp của các thầy tại tòa nhà AT World

64: A Buddha sculpture next to the water lily pond outside the Buddhist temple
Một tượng phật cạnh hồ hoa sen bên ngoài Chùa

65: The Vietnamese refugees reserved a boat as a symbol of their struggle and suffering during the journey to freedom at sea
Dân tị nạn Việt đem chiếc tàu này trưng bày ở vùng 1