In Seach of A Missing Brother

PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY MISSING BROTHER

If you have some information about Tri or Chi, please help his sister reunite with him. Tri was in PFAC in 1986 to 1987.  

Please read the story below for more information.  Click to enlarge the picture for easy reading.

 

Remembering PFAC Palawan (the VRC)

PFAC Palawan - Our Second Home

This is our new PFAC Palawan blog and Facebook cover.

This is the Caodaist Temple. It was located next to the Red Cross on the left on VRC Main Street.

This is the PFAC Palawan main gate. It had 24-hour military security provided by WESCOM and the Philippine government.

This is the IOM/ICM Office. It used to stand across from the Catholic Church.

This is the UNHCR Field Office in Zone One. Refuge interviews by different countries took place in this building.

This is one of the authentic boats which sailed across the West Philippine Sea from South Vietnam.

This is the Roman Catholic Church inside PFAC. The priests all came from abroad to serve the Christian population of the camp.

This is the main building of the Refugee Camp. You can see the Media Communication Center and the Mail Section on the left.

This is the PFAC Evangelical Church. It used to stand next to the Caodaist Temple and across from the Catholic Church.

This is the Buddhist Temple. It used to be located between the Red Cross and the Caodaist Temple.

 

This communal restroom was located in every zone. Refugee families had keys to access them and were responsible for their cleanliness.

 

For the record, PFAC was originally called 'The Vietnamese Refugee Camp' or the 'VRC'. PFAC stands for the Philippine First Asylum Center (or Camp).

 

WHAT HAS BECOME OF THIS BOAT?

This Vietnamese Refugees boat carried around twenty-seven refugees and sailed across the China Sea from South Vietnam. It landed on Palawan Island sometime during the late 1982 and early 1983. The boat may have been brought close to the camp by the French ship Le Goelo.  It may have been too big to pick up and place on the ship, but it reached the refugee camp anyway.

DWIGHT RUSSEL says,
"We moved it by rolling it on pipe into the camp and I think it was placed next to the IOM Office almost across from  the UNHCR building and not very far into the camp and on the left-hand side as you enter the camp from the VRC Main Gate."

"It was a lot of work to move it. We were glad though that Eleanor Stewart, Dr. Erick Abbot, and some energetic Vietnamese refugee volunteers were there to lend their helping hands." 

 

The boat stayed near IOM Office until 1985.The following year, it was moved somewhere. Or was it damaged? Was it used for the filming of the French television film "CHINA SEA?

Where is this boat now? What has become of it?  Could this be the boat that was brought to Washington DC in 1985 to commemorate the struggles and sufferings of the Vietnamese refugees?If you have any information about what actually happened to this boat or where it is now, please drop us a line.

(Thank you very much Mr. Dwight Russel for sharing these photos with us.?)
  

Memorable Images of PFAC Palawan