BRWF: Bhutanese Refugee Women's Forum

Our first day started: We went right to the Sanischare Camp. After a debriefing with the official members from the main office of the BRWF (Bhutanese Refugee Womens Forum) we had a lunch right in the camp. The food was prepared by Refugees that had earned money to fund their "restaurant" through micro-financing loans that are provided based on an application that gets approved in groups of 5 at a time. These funds can be used for any business within the camp once granted and have some of the most successful payback rates among all loans worldwide! After lunch we went into a meeting to figure out what we were going to focus on over the days that we were here. Realizing that there was no website for the BRWF we suggested that we would come up with an initial design that we could then fill in the details for a reference that all could use for the years to come. We agreed that utilizing the information that the BRWF had already created for yearly census would be perfect for us to share on their first website. After leaving the camp we went back to the UN office where we formulated the outline that will become the website. We quickly went to Google Page and purchased the domain "brwf.org" and started hacking away at this Beta site. Very excited to have such a meaningful project to leave them with after our departure......

Later that night we were invited to dinner at the IOM (International Organization of Migration) Guest House which is the home here in Damak to all of the representatives hired by the US Government, and other countries included in the resettlement effort, to aid in the selection process of the Refugees that will come to these countries upon re-settlement. We heard music like Dylan and Radiohead playing from one of the diner's personnel's Ipod; felt like home, which was very bizarre to say the least in this community so far from home!!!