This is a brochure from last year on Thailand.

1. About Us
Nourish International
invites students at colleges
across the country to be a
part of the solution to
global poverty. By running
ventures throughout the
year, Nourish chapters earn
money to conduct Our mission is
community development
projects. Over the summer,
to eradicate
students from Nourish poverty by
chapters travel abroad to
partner with local
engaging
communities in students and
implementing these
solutions. empowering
communities.
Contact Us
www.nourishinternational.org/osu
Nourish
lewis.1156@osu.edu International

2. Nourish International ~Hunger Lunch May 20th 2009~
Refugees in Thailand
According to Refugees International, “Burma is experiencing
one of the most neglected humanitarian and human rights
crises in the world. No less than half a million people are
internally displaced in the eastern
part of the country and at least
one million more have fled to
neighboring nations.”
For more information: Check out www.refugeesinternational.org
Or the C.I.A. World Fact book at www.cia.gov.
Thailand is currently housing there. Currently, the government
over 150,000 refugees from has given no indication of when it
Burma. There are nine displaced can screen the more than 70,000
persons camps located across unregistered camp dwellers or
Thailand for these refugees. assess the claims of thousands of
Hundreds of thousand other other asylum seekers outside
Burmese live throughout the these camps. NGO’s have been
country as illegal immigrants and providing humanitarian aid to
thus are not granted refugee these refugees but the financial
status. The number of refugees strain on the Thai government to
from Burma will continue to rise provide for these refugees is
exponentially because of the becoming hard to bare.
human rights abuses occurring