Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), 10 Jan 2003
JRS Dispatches No. 124
(Extracted from JRS Dispatches No. 124)
Twice monthly news bulletin from the Jesuit Refugee Service International
Office
REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS
JRS Supports School Renovation In South Buru, Moluccan
Islands, Indonesia
The work on a school that JRS is helping to renovate for displaced people in South
Buru on the Moluccan Islands is almost finished. Even though the work is not quite
complete, it already functions well as an elementary school, with four classrooms in
use, and two more in the final stages of renovation. This school has got four teachers
and fifty students, some of whom have moved from the local state school. Because of
the new school, the displaced people who were sheltered in mountain areas are now
re-locating to Masnana village, where the structure is located. JRS established a
presence on the Moluccan Islands in 2000 to provide services to the people who had
become displaced due to the Islands' sectarian conflict.
JRS DISPATCHES is from the International Office of Jesuit Refugee Service, CP
6139, 00195 Roma Prati, Italy. Tel: +39-06 689.77.391; Fax: +39-06 688 06 418;
Email: dispatches@jrs.net; JRS on-line: http://www.jesref.org
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