Aid dollars help open new camp

AID from Hong Kong is helping open a new site to relieve overcrowded Rwandan refugee camps.

Oxfam, with the help of funds from Hong Kong, is providing fresh water to a site which will hold more than 100,000 refugees.

Many of those expected to move to the new site now live in squalid, hastily erected camps where they need to make a 50-kilometre round trip each day to collect water.

Paul Smith-Lomas, the Oxfam emergency technical adviser in Goma, said it was impossible to provide a sufficient supply of fresh water to all refugees in existing camps.

''Everyone has agreed a new site has to be established,'' he said.

Kibumba, the main camp in Goma, is unsustainable, with as many as 400,000 people crowded into the site.