1. There was limited space for the Hmong people to garden and grow their own vegetables.
2. Hmong can also buy food from the market brought to camp markets by Thai traders. Ducks, chickens, vegetables, home-made tofu, sweets, soda pop, noodle soups
3. Most people had no money and many had no relatives who had resettled in a third country to send money for them. These folks depended on UN rations if they were legally in the camp, but thousands were not.
4. In Ban Vinai, people line up for stew (vegetables and chicken or fish boiled together and served with rice).
5. People line up and wait their turn. Hmong camp leaders weighed and distributed small amounts of rice, vegetables, and meat or fish to each family. Food usually lasts 3 days.
6. Food delivered to the camp by Thai merchants.
7. Before Ban Vinai was overcrowded with refugees, some farm on small plots of land outside the camp
Research suggestions:
* Did they farm like back in Laos? How? Where? Why or why not?