AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE:

The American Refugee Committee (ARC) began in 1978, founded by Neal Ball after he began sponsorship efforts to help refugees begin new lives in America. A Laotian refugee who Neal sponsored helped with his early attempts to assist refugees.

In December 1978 ARC was incorporated in the State of Illinois. In 1979 Neal established ARC’s offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and formalized ARC sponsorship actions after finding its first director, Stan Breen, who lived in Minnesota and was working for Governor Wendell Anderson. In the beginning ARC’s goal was finite: clear the refugee camps and help refugees that traveled to America integrate them into society and productive lives.

ARC initially began with the understanding that ARC’s mission would end with the resolution of the Cambodian refugee crisis that occurred after the end of the Vietnam War (1979). To that end Neal wanted to fully utilize the private sectors' resources (financial and human) to develop and train sponsors for refugee camps in Southeast Asia.

As ARC fulfilled its original mission it was faced with the question of ceasing operations or expanding its mission internationally to assist refugees in similar crises. ARC staff "worked with a commitment to putting ourselves out of a job.”

To answer this question, the Refugee Policy Group performed a contracted evaluation of ARC’s activities, impact, and value in 1984. Their final report "indicated that ARC was valued, respected, and needed…it also noted that its value was rooted in its quality of work [and] also in its non-sectarian commitment."

ARC’s Board moved to “establish operational presence” in Eastern Sudan in November 1984, and the first team arrived on February 1, 1985. ARC partnered with Llamba, a small NGO, which already had a long term presence in Eastern Sudan. ARC’s first efforts focused on health care, and faced numerous logistical challenges regarding the ordering of, transportation, and customs clearance of supplies and medicine sent to Eastern Sudan.

The next mission was Malawi in 1988 to assist Mozambican refugees. With success in both Sudan and Malawi, ARC established itself as a well respected non-governmental organization and its goals and services expanded to other countries. In the 1990s ARC experienced both several successes and problems (financially and with administrative operations, in particular security) and ARC increased its strategic planning and internal evaluation of programs.

As of 2012, ARC continues to provide its services to refugees in numerous countries around the world.

Historical information and quotations taken from a detailed statement of history written by Karen Johnson Elshazly, ARC's Director of International Programs for several years.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. American Refugee Committee. Organizational Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 13,750; 14,407; 16,620; 16,635; 17,168; 17,862

Processing Information:

Processed by: Lara Friedman-Shedlov, December 1998; David B. Peterson, August 2017; and Leif Kopietz, November 2021.

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 990017350660104294

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Organizational files focus on the structure, organization, policies and procedures, and history of the American Refugee Committee. These files include historical information, annual reports, articles of incorporation and bylaws, financial information, miscellaneous office files, meeting minutes, manuals and guides, training manuals, country director workshops, security materials related to the protection of ARC international staff, and strategic planning materials.

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149.B.13.9B

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Elshazly, Karen Johnson. Statement of history, April 2010.

Digital version

Elshazly, Karen Johnson. Statement of history (revised), 2015.

Digital version

Historical, 1979-1993.

Includes correspondence and related documents, historical information, long range plans, and miscellaneous related material regarding ARC's beginnings and history.

Digital version, Neal Ball to Steve Breen, regarding tuberculosis treatment and funding, July 23, 1981

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Subject files include a study on SUNDS (Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome in Asian Americans), research, and correspondence related to the study.

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Correspondence files includes correspondence with ARC's founder, Neal Ball, a set of alphabetical correspondence arranged by name, and a set of chronological correspondence.

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International program files represent the bulk of this collection. They generally consist of reports (monthly, quarterly, situation updates, mid-term, final, trip, miscellaneous), correspondence, grants and proposals, budget related materials, manuals and training guidelines, background information, articles, maps, and related documents.

There are also a few international program miscellaneous files that include an orientation manual, correspondence, news releases, and records (correspondence and miscellaneous documents) related to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).

Also available in the International Program files are records from various refugee camps that reflect the American Refugee Committee's activities. These include Ban Vanai, Khou I Dhang, Nong Khui, Phanat Nikhom, Nong Samet, Banteay, Pursat, and many others.

Africa

Records from ARC programs in Africa make up a large portion of the international program records. Included are records from West Africa, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, Malawi, and others. Records can consist of reports, correspondence, proposals, grants, studies, budget related material, background information, articles, maps, and related documents. Correspondence from Somalia includes letters from Somali elders written to ARC and provide valuable insight into how ARC operated in Somalia and issues ARC faced. One letter, from Mohamuud Sahad to ARC regarding the appointment of a Health Committee for his district, is a good example.

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148.D.4.7B

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Angola:

General.

S. Miles' field report, November 2000.

Angola/Sudan S. Miles HIV/AIDS report.

UNHCR Self-reliance proposals and contracts, 2001.

Democratic Republic of Congo:

USAID/Embassy briefing pack...Eastern DRC, 2000.

Miscellaneous, 2000-2002.

Proposals and project summary, 2002.

Registration.

DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)-OFDA (Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance) correspondence, 2001.

DRC-BPRM (Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration) 11148 Proposals/Contracts, 2001.

DRC 11148 Vehicle transfer.

DRC BPRM 11148 program reports.

DRC OFDA proposals/contracts.

Eritrea:

Proposal for community based health care in Gash-Setit, Barka and Sahel Provinces, Eritrea, submitted to BPRM, June 5, 1995.

Situation updates, May-June 2000.

OFDA proposals and contracts, 2000.

Goma:

Arranged chronologically. Includes correspondence, grants and budget related material, proposals, monthly and other reports, and miscellaneous background information.

Proposal.

ARC in Goma, Zaire: Events from July 1994-March 1995.

1994-1995. 9 folders.

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148.D.4.8F

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1995-1997. 16 folders.

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130.A.11.1B

21

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone:

Includes a mix of material from ARC programs in all three countries.

Miscellaneous correspondence, background, reports, articles, 1996-1999. 10 folders.

Includes newsletter ARC From the Forest.

Miscellaneous correspondence, program reports, background, circa 2000-circa 2004. 3 folders.

Program reports include monthly reports, quarterly reports, country health statistical reports, other miscellaneous reports.

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130.A.11.2F

22

Miscellaneous correspondence, program reports and proposals, background, circa 2000-circa 2004. 6 folders.

Program reports, 2000.

Guinea:

ARC's entry into West Africa was in response to a request from UNHCR. Donors identified income generation as the major need so that refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone, integrated into the community, could generate some income that would allow them to access indigenous services.

Guinea program proposal, 1996-1997.

Proposal and project development, 1996-1997. 2 folders.

Income generation and health program reports, related correspondence and documents, 1996-1997. 2 folders.

Income generation and health program reports, related correspondence and documents, circa 1999-circa 2003. 6 folders.

Internal reports.

General correspondence.

Budget and funding: BPRM proposals and contracts, financial reports. 8 folders.

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130.A.11.3B

23

Budget and funding: BPRM proposals and contracts, financial and program reports, and correspondence, 1996-2001. 29 folders.

Legal aid project description, March 2003.

Legal Aspects of Violence Against Refugee Women in Kisidougou Town and Albadriah Camps, 2005.

Sexual abuse, undated, 2000.

RHL-WOT (Reproductive Health and Literacy-Women of Today),

SGBV (Sexual and Gender Based Violence), 2001.

Budget and funding: UNHCR proposals and contracts, grants, financial reports, 2001-2003. 7 folders.

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130.A.11.4F

24

Budget and funding: UNHCR and BPRM proposals and contracts, grants, financial reports, 1997-2003. 64 folders.

Includes a few other funding sources, such as USAID.

Kenya:

Leatoto monthly reports, 1998.

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130.A.11.5B

25

Liberia:

CURA: Liberia.

Liberia: miscellaneous.

Liberian refugees.

Miscellaneous, 1995-1998. 5 folders.

Includes reports, correspondence, documents, proposals, related materials.

HCR Liberia.

Budget (payroll, financial reports), 1999.

Budget, staffing, and micro credit project related correspondence and miscellaneous documents, 1998-2004. 2 folders.

General, 2001.

Liberia Alchemy/Tufts micro credit proposals/contracts, 2002.

Budget and funding: BPRM, HCR, UNHCR proposals and contracts, program and financial reports, correspondence. 32 folders.

Includes a few other funding sources such as the Ball Fund.

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130.A.11.6F

26

Sierra Leone:

Internship, general, Summer 2001.

Tufts/Alchemy, December 2001.

Internal reports and trip reports.

RH (Reproductive Health).

Micro credit program, 2001.

Introduction to Sierra Leone and ARC programs, 2003.

Protracted refugee and displaced person projects for CFA approval: Project Liberia/Sierra Leone, 1995.

General, 2000.

Start-up, 1999-2000.

NGO policy, 2000.

Maps.

Financial Services Act.

Assessment.

Financials.

Micro finance strategic plan.

Micro finance general.

General weekly reports, 2002.

Funding and budget: BPRM and UNHCR, USAID, Global Fund, DFID program reports, financial reports, proposals, contracts, grants, and related correspondence and material, circa 2001-circa 2003. 37 folders.

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130.A.11.7B

27

Malawi:

The American Refugee Committee assisted Mozambican refugees in Malawi, through a program funded by ARC and the U.S. Department of Defense in which ARC built boats that transported returning Mozambican refugees safely to their homes via the Shire River. It was too dangerous by road due to land mines as well as residual guerillas.

The program in Malawi was considered a highly successful implementation. Malawians took Mozambicans into their homes and villages because of tribal relationships and the Government of Malawi dictated that there could be only one NGO per district. They required that efforts target Malawian health and education development to better enable Malawi to care for their people as well as the refugees. Camps had to be built in some areas due to over saturation of the refugee population and ARC also participated in this: building camps and health facilities that would serve Malawi after the refugees were able to return home (hospitals, cholera centers, schools, administration buildings, housing for medical staff, and sometimes roads).

Volunteer orientation materials: Malawi history and culture, maps.

Orientation manual. 2 folders.

Orientation manual background materials.

Operations manual and project proposal, 1990-1991.

Boat contract, 1994.

Evaluation and close-out procedures, undated, 1992.

Miscellaneous, 1988-1995. 11 folders.

Includes monthly reports, program reports, correspondence, proposals, related documents and material.

Miscellaneous articles, reports, training, undated, 1992-1994.

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130.A.11.8F

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Mozambique:

Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique, April 1988.

Miscellaneous, 1990-1996. 7 folders.

Includes monthly reports, program reports, miscellaneous correspondence and related documents.

ARC water and sanitization baseline survey Kaphiridzanje, Tete Province, Mozambique, March 1994.

ARC PHC KAP baseline survey: Chifunde, Changaro, Moatize Districts, Tete Province, Mozambique, May 1995. 2 folders.

Mozambique baseline survey, 1995. 2 folders.

Mozambique final reports, 1996.

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130.A.10.1B

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Monthly reports/updates, miscellaneous, 1994-1996. 3 folders.

In English and Portuguese.

Final evaluation. 2 folders.

Final program evaluation. 2 folders.

Final program evaluation miscellaneous material.

In English and Portuguese.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, articles, reports, circa 1993-circa 1995.

UNHCR UN proposals.

Proposals, 2 folders.

Miscellaneous correspondence, documents.

Includes a cloth ARC flag featuring the ARC logo. Ones like it were possibly used to identify American Refugee Committee presence.

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130.A.10.2F

30

Rwanda:

Program overview and history, 2001.

Background and early planning, 1994-1995.

Funding history.

Rwanda journal. Typed.

Health.

General.

Camp maps:

Byumba, 1998.

Umutara, 1997, 1998.

Louis Ruhr miscellaneous.

Includes review of monthly reports.

Activities executed in Umutara Province and Byumba Prefecture, 1997-1998.

Program report, September 1997-February 1998. 2 folders.

Emergency plan of action for medical services in the Mutara Region of East Byumba Prefecture (operational plan), 1996.

Procedures and background information, circa 2000, 2004.

The Preventable Genocide, 2000. 2 folders.

Trip report, July 16-26, 2005.

Early years:

Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, proposals, maps, background, 1994-circa 1999. 4 folders.

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130.A.10.3B

31

Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, proposals, background, 1994-circa 1999. 3 folders.

Background and training, staffing, circa 1990, 1994-2000. 3 folders.

UNHCR, 1996.

OFDA, February 1995-August 1996. 2 folders.

Funding and budget, 1999-2002. 3 folders.

Funding and budget, proposals and grants, circa 1995-circa 1999. 3 folders.

Reports, 1994-1999. 2 folders.

Includes monthly, annual, logframe (logical framework), quarterly, mid-term, and narrative reports from various locations such as the Nyagatare District, the Mutura Region, Byumba Prefecture, Gihembe and Kiziba Refugee camps, and Kizobo Refugee Camp.

These reports are in rough chronological order.

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130.A.10.4F

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Reports, 1994-2003. 11 folders.

Monthly and internal reports.

BPRM program reports, contracts/proposals, finance reports, internal drafts, 2001-2003. 6 folders.

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130.A.10.5B

33

Miscellaneous reports, proposals/contracts, financial reports, and program reports. 1998-2002. 59 folders.

Includes BPRM, OFDA, UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), and UNHCR. Some correspondence is also present.

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130.A.10.6F

34

Miscellaneous reports, proposals/contracts, financial reports, and program reports, 1997-2001. 56 folders.

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130.A.10.7B

35

Somalia:

Mandera North East 1st Assessments, 1998. 2 folders.

Health statistics, 1997-1998.

Original communications with Somali elders:

Letters and documents to Somali elders, 1994-1998.

In English and Somali.

Letters and documents from Somali elders to ARC (complaints and concerns), 1993-1995.

In English and Somali.

Digital version, Mohamuud Sahad to ARC, regarding appointment of Health Committee, February 9, 1995

Somalia Health Sector Coordination handbook, 1998. 2 folders.

UNICEF WAT/SAM miscellaneous, 1993-1998.

Includes final narrative report.

UNICEF service agreements and letters, 1995.

Donor information, 1998.

UNICEF original contracts, 1998.

8152 original amendment documents, 1998.

Mathare Maternity Centre and Reproductive Health project, 1998.

HIV/AIDS in Kenya: Assessment reports, 1998.

NGO Flood Consortium, 1997-1998.

EPI UNICEF reports, 1997-1998.

WFP original distribution, 1997-1998.

WHO (World Health Organization) Polio NIDS (National Immunization Days) Round 1, 1998. 2 folders.

WHO Polio NIDS Round 2, 1998.

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130.A.10.8F

36

Program overview, 1992-1995.

Includes newspaper reports, OFDA reports, organizational chart, progress reports, relief organizations, security, UNHCR 4th annual Coordination meeting, UNHCR updates.

Handbook, 1992-1998. 2 folders.

Includes budget reports, correspondence, cross-country operations, cultural and history (data/information), grant reports, and immunizations for volunteers.

Miscellaneous, 1993-1998. 5 folders.

Kenya Girl Guides, 1999.

Background, briefings, strategy, 1992-1994, 1996. 2 folders.

Maps, situation update reports, program update reports, 1994-1995.

Policy and procedure, personnel manuals, undated, 1994.

Manuals:

Health Financing in Somalia: A Feasibility Study, 1997.

Miscellaneous manuals, 1997. 2 items.

Inter-agency flood response operation phase 1 evaluation first draft, July 1998.

Inter-agency flood response operation phase 1 evaluation final draft, November-December 1997, July 1998.

Hancock, Kevin. Refugee Women and Children in Somalia: Their Social and Psychological Needs, 1988. 2 folders.

Bardera evaluation.

Bardera UNICEF.

Afmadou.

Bardera UNHCR.

SACO HUEN UNHCR.

Miscellaneous correspondence, proposals, grant related materials, reports, circa 1993-1999. 2 folders.

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130.A.9.1B

37

Miscellaneous correspondence, proposals, grant related materials, reports, circa 1993-1999. 2 folders.

Consultancy, 1996-1997.

Final reports of income generating activities and community development pilot project in Afmadou and Haga Districts, March 1997.

Quick Impact Projects: UNHCR/Adis Afrique, 1997.

A guide to improving health care service delivery in Somaliland (draft), November 1997.

Survey of primary schools in Somalia, September 1997.

Primary health care training materials, undated.

In English and Somali.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1997-1998.

Baddaahe District closure, 1997-1998.

Indigenous Somali groups, 1996-1997.

Audit file, 1995-1996.

Post-Unosom II United Nations presence in Somalia: Report to the Secretary-General by the U.N. Security Coordinator, January 30, 1995.

The Library of Congress. Somalia: A Country Study area handbook series, 1992.

Program closure and summary.

Grants and funding materials:

Bardera OFDA.

Grant HELJO18 Afmadou, Somalia midterm narrative and budget revisions.

Monthly reports, 1998.

Somalia/Bordera contract/proposal correspondence, 1993.

ARC/Adis Afrique, 1996-1997.

Somalia: CARE HELJO18 Proposals/Contracts.

CARE HELJO18 program reports, 1995-1997.

CARE financial reports, 1997.

CARE HELJO18 correspondence, 1995-1997.

OFDA proposals/contracts, 1996-1997.

USAID/AOT 6-00-96-00004-00 financial reports, 1997.

OFDA AOT...correspondence, 1996-1997.

OFDA AOT 1032-G-00-3218-00.

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130.A.9.2F

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UNHCR proposals/contract, 1996-1997.

WFP proposals/contracts, 1997.

UNHCR QIP (Quick Impack Project) program reports, 1997.

UNHCR QIPS financial reports, 1997.

UNHCR correspondence, 1997.

UNHCR, 1993.

Polio NIDS.

Somalia UNICEF contract with proposal, 1997.

UNICEF program reports, 1997.

UNICEF financial reports, 1997.

OFDA AOT G-00-97-00297-00 program reports, 1997-1998.

Somalia USAID 00297 financial reports.

USAID/OFDA correspondence, 1997-1998.

Somalia, 1993.

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130.A.9.3B

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Sudan:

Eastern Sudan:

The American Refugee Committee in Eastern Sudan, February 12, 1987.

Sudanow; Embassy News: The Democratic Republic of Sudan magazines, undated, 1985-1986.

Embassy of Sudan, Washington D.C. Sudan: The country and its market, circa 1988.

Refugee Policy Group. Post Emergency Assistance for Refugees in Eastern and Southern Africa: An Overview, April 1987.

Refugee Policy Group. Refugee Participation Case Study: the Karkora Settlement in Eastern Sudan, November 1987.

ARC in the Sudan/East Africa presentation materials, undated.

Preventive health care in a refugee camp, undated.

Proposal for community based health care in Gash-Setit, Barka, and Sahel Provinces, Eritrea, 1995.

Homevisitor program.

Background, circa 1984-circa 1994. 2 folders.

Includes miscellaneous articles, maps, and correspondence.

Background and procedures, circa 1985.

Reports (monthly, narrative, medical, miscellaneous), 1985-1986.

Monthly reports, 1986-1989. 5 folders.

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, 1988-1989. 2 folders.

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130.A.9.4F

40

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, 1989. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous articles, 1988-1989.

South Sudan:

Curriculum for maternal and child health workers (draft), undated.

Sudan general, 1998.

Background (guidebook), circa 1993-1996.

Background information, circa 1993-circa 1998. 4 folders.

A Critical Review of Operation Lifeline Sudan: A Report to the Aid Agencies, October 1990.

Reproductive health, 2001.

Budget and grant related materials:

Financial reports, proposals, contracts, correspondence, 1997. 8 folders.

Includes OFDA, USAID, Refugees International Japan (RIJ).

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130.A.9.5B

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General, 1999-2000.

General: Court case, 1999-2000.

General, 2002.

Development reports, internal program reports and narratives, internal reports, financial narrative, 1998-2001. 6 folders.

Nimule (Payam, Torit County) draft proposal and assessment, November 6, 1999; October 24, 1999.

Sudan BPRM 2000 content paper.

Sudan 2000 BPRM proposals/contracts.

Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury grant proposals and contracts, 2003.

EBP RH grant program reports, 2003.

Global fund round 2 proposals/contracts, 2003.

Budget and grant related material: OFDA proposals, contracts, program reports, financial reports, 1994-2003. 24 folders.

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130.A.9.6F

42

USAID/SV, miscellaneous financial reports, proposals, contracts, 1997-2003.

Reports:

Monthly, quarterly, mid-term, and miscellaneous reports, 1998-2002. 5 folders.

Life Supporting Health, Water, Environment, Sanitation, and Capacity Building Services...Kajo Keji County and Nimule Payam, Magwi County, 2001-2002.

Reducing/Prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2001-2002. 3 folders.

Kajo Keji and Mangalatore reports, correspondence, miscellaneous related documents, 1993-1994. 2 folders.

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, grant proposals, correspondence, and related documents, 1993-1996. 6 folders.

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130.A.9.7B

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Monthly and miscellaneous reports, grant proposals, correspondence, and related documents, 1996-1999. 5 folders.

Logframes, 1995.

Home Base Care, 2005.

USAID 00048-00 program reports, subgrant with IRC, 2003. 2 folders.

OFDA proposals/contracts, 1999-2000.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Primary Health Care: Kajo Keji County, July 2000.

Uganda:

Proposal for Health Intervention Programs in Kisoro and Rwembogo Refugee Camps: Southern Uganda, 1994.

Recommendations for Environmental Projects at ARC sites in the Africa Region, July 4, 1994.

Proposals to RIJ, 1995.

Proposal for health, environment, and community development services to facilitate the local integration of refugees in Southwest Uganda: Kyaka II Settlement, August 27, 1996.

Proposals, contracts, budgets for ARC health programs in Uganda, 1994-1997. 2 folders.

Includes proposals, related correspondence, and budget submissions to UNHCR for Kyaka.

Budget: UNHCR grants and agreements, 1995-1997.

UNHCR agreement for Kyaka, related correspondence and documents, 1996-1997.

UNHCR agreement, 1997.

Kyaka/UNHCR funding, 1995. 2 folders.

Financial reports and budgets, 1996-1997.

Strategic planning: Kyaka II Settlement, Rwembogo, Kisaro, 1994-1997.

Includes field assessment reports, logical frameworks, survey, related documents.

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, 1995-1997.

Kyaka II Resettlement Camp monthly reports, 1997.

Kyaka II Resettlement Camp monthly reports and final reports, 1995, 1997.

Uganda/Sudan: Monthly reports, security updates, 1995-1997. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous, 1993-1995, 2002, 2005.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, 1996-1998.

Miscellany, 1989-2007.

Asia

There is significant material from ARC operations in Asia, with a focus on Cambodia, the Cambodian border, and the Thai-Burma Border including a volume that includes a list of medical staff with a photograph of each from a refugee camp along the Cambodian border. Also included with the Cambodian International Program records are files related to the American Refugee tuberculosis treatment program.

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130.A.9.8F

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Cambodia:

Cambodia Health Committee, 1994, 1999.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, reports, articles, circa 1989-1998. 12 folders.

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130.A.8.1B

45

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, reports, articles, 9 folders.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, reports, articles, monthly reports, 1992-1996. 6 folders.

Arlys Herem letters, 1992-1995.

Cambodia, 1999.

Cambodia: a time for return, reconciliation and reconstruction, 1991. 1 volume.

Authored by the Refugee Policy Group.

Camp sites:

Banteay:

Miscellaneous (general), 1993-1997.

Other reports, 1994-1997.

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130.A.8.2F

46

Logframes.

Evaluations.

Faxes/correspondence.

Annual and quarterly reports, 1993-1995. 2 folders.

Pursat: Assessments, logframes, monthly reports, updates, quarterly reports, faxes/correspondence, 1990-1996. 3 folders.

Pursat and Banteay monthly and quarterly reports, 1991-1994 6 folders.

Budget, grants, and proposals:

Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, grants and proposals, USAID papers, circa 1994-1996. 5 folders.

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130.A.8.3B

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Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, grants and proposals, USAID papers, circa 1994-1996. 6 folders.

Grant proposals, 1992-1998.

Proposals, grants, and budget related documents and miscellaneous correspondence, 1994-1999. 3 folders.

Background:

Newspaper reports, 1992-1998.

General health background. 1992-1996.

Camps: Miscellaneous information. 1990s.

Miscellaneous background information: Articles, reports, maps, circa 1989-circa 1995. 3 folders.

Health and human rights education, undated, 1994.

Peggy Braile newsletters from Cambodia, 1991-1993.

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148.D.4.6F

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Policies and operations:

Policies and planning manual, 1994-1996.

Plan of operation for women and children in Cambodia, 1996-2000.

Planning strategy for health care system in Cambodia, circa 1990s.

Staff writings, 1990-1994.

Vulnerable in the village: a study of returnees in Battambang Province, Cambodia, with a focus on strategies for the landless, 1995. 1 volume.

Project report by Paul Davenport, Sister Joan Healy, and Kevin Malone.

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130.A.8.4F

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Cambodian border:

The American Refugee Committee's first operations began when ARC sent a team of five professionals to work with the Hmong in the Ban Vinai Camp near the Thai-Lao border in Northern Thailand (October 1979). Two weeks after they arrived there was an influx of nearly three-quarters of a million people from Cambodia due to the Vietnamese invasion.

ARC reassigned two physicians to the border and recruited 15 staff which departed early November for the border. This team included Dr. Steve Miles, who developed ARC's philosophy and commitment to training and the appropriate level of care during this time. He was also instrumental in developing a treatment for tuberculosis.

Also included are materials related to ARC's tuberculosis treatment program. Tuberculosis treatment was not allowed on the Cambodian border in the beginning due to the danger of creating a more deadly drug-resistant strain as the population was transient and it was a war zone. ARC (through Steve Miles) developed a short-term protocol which required whole family education and the signing of a contract. If ARC expatriate staff could not go to the camp, ARC trained medics had medicines buried and they would find the patients for their daily treatment. The program completed after 13 years, and treatment also followed the returning refugees home in 1992-1993.

ARC articles of incorporation.

Historical.

Miscellaneous camp profiles.

Ban Vanai, circa 1980-circa 1988. 2 folders.

Correspondence and related documents, 1979-1982, 1985.

ARC TB (tuberculosis) program, 1979-1993. 4 folders.

Tuberculosis program on the Thai-Cambodian border, 1980-1993.

End of mission report: Thai-Kamphuchean border.

Dr. Louis Braile journals, circa 1985-circa 1989. Typed. 2 folders.

Nancy Roberts Thailand journal: Trip with Karen Johnson (Elshazly), December 1979.

Maps of camps, circa 1982-1984.

Repatriation to Cambodia, 1992-1995. 5 folders.

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130.A.8.5B

49

Medical training:

Medical programs/projects miscellaneous correspondence, reports, 1981-1984. 3 folders.

Medical training principles, guidelines, undated, 1985, 1990.

Medical assistants program Site 2 North.

Site 2 medic training curriculum/materials.

Khmer Medical Teachers Training Program, 1980-1981. 3 folders.

Site 2:

Medical assistant.

Midwife.

Trauma treatment.

Draft training manual.

Ward Manual Khao I Dang.

List of medical staff, circa 1987-circa 1993. 1 volume.

Digital version, pages 2-3

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130.A.8.6F

50

UNBRO (U.N. Border Relief Operation) correspondence and related material, 1983-1992.

Nong Samet, Thailand, 1979-1985.

Nong Samet, Site 2. 3 folders.

Nong Samet.

Nong Samet, 1982-1984. 4 folders.

Site 2 orientation information.

Bang Poo, site 2 monthly reports, 1985-1993. 2 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.8.7B

51

Site 2 manual, 1985-1993. 3 folders.

Includes monthly and final report for Bang Poo and Site 2.

Site 2 monthly reports, 1987-1992. 13 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.8.8F

52

Site 2 monthly reports and 1991 annual report, 1991-1992.

Site 2 monthly reports, 1992-1993. 2 folders.

Site 2 final report, 1993.

Site 2 final report and minutes CCSDPT open session meeting, 1992-1993.

Red Hills/Site 7, Site 2 S (South) monthly reports, 1984-1986. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents, quarterly reports, closing of site 2, 1991, 1993 (bulk 1993).

Miscellaneous correspondence and related documents: Coffey MPW Ltd basic skills project (Health Sector), 1996.

Miscellaneous reports, documents, articles, circa 1980-circa 1990. 3 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.7.1B

53

United Nations guidelines, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1994.

Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced persons in Thailand, 1980, 1994.

Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand handbooks and directory, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990-1991.

Field administration manual, April 1, 1993.

Overview of the situation in Kampuchea: ARC's future at the border: Chronology of events, 1989.

Lessons learned from ARC's experience in Cambodia: November 1990-March 1993, April 1993.

Red Cross Times magazine, 1980-1981.

Miscellaneous reports and background articles.

Cambodian rural health development project final evaluation, May 1996.

Miscellaneous, 1991-2000. 6 folders.

Monthly reports, 1998-1999. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous reports.

Quarterly reports.

Miscellaneous.

Assessments.

Faxes/correspondence.

Location

Box

130.A.7.2F

54

Indonesia:

Assessment, 1999-2000.

Memorandums, general correspondence, miscellaneous, 2000.

Memorandum of understanding (MOU), 2000.

Anthony (Tony) J. Kozlowski trip to Indonesia narrative, 2000.

BPRM Health WAT/SAN proposals, contracts, 2000.

UNHCR correspondence, reports, memorandums, 1999-2000.

HCR proposals/contracts, 2000.

UNHCR correspondence, 1999.

UNHCR proposals/contracts, 1999.

HCR financial reports.

HCR audit, 1999.

Program reports, 1999.

USIP conflict management proposals and contracts, 2001.

West Kalimantan assessment.

East Timor, 1999. 2 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.7.4F

56

Laos:

Trip reports, 1994.

Assessing feasibility of starting ARC programs in Laos.

Thai-Burma Border:

Monthly project reports and personnel lists, miscellaneous reports, 1992-March 1999. 21 folders.

Can include quarterly reports, annual work plans, related correspondence, and miscellaneous related documents. Also includes some reports from the Thailand/Cambodian border.

Location

Box

130.A.7.5B

57

Monthly project reports and personnel lists, miscellaneous reports, April 1999-July 2001. 22 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.7.6F

58

Monthly project reports and personnel lists, miscellaneous reports, September 2001-August 2003. 24 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.7.7B

59

Monthly project reports and personnel lists, miscellaneous reports, October 2003-August 2004.

Sangklaburi and Umphang Thailand monthly project report: Umpiem Mai, Nu Po, Don Yang, February 2007.

Rohingya, 1992, 1999.

Miscellaneous, 1993-2000. 3 folders.

Includes correspondence, background, papers, reports, related documents, situation updates regarding security incidents.

Miscellaneous, 1994-1995.

Includes some quarterly and monthly reports, miscellaneous correspondence, and related documents.

Health:

Health: Thailand, 1999, 2001.

Maternal, child, and reproductive health: Guidelines, procedures, protocols, studies, papers, undated, 1994, 1995, 2001.

A primary health care survey of displaced persons residing on the Thai-Burmese Border, 1994.

Community health worker basic training course (Meteroke Camp), January 15-March 23, 1996.

Primary Health Care Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice survey report: Nu Po Camp, Umphang District, Tak Province, Thailand, February 1998.

Concept proposal for primary health care assistance and training for Burmese and ethnic minority refugees on the Thai-Burmese border, July 19, 2002.

Location

Box

130.A.7.8F

60

BPRM proposals and contracts, program reports, financial reports, and correspondence, 1992-2002. 33 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.6.1B

61

BPRM proposals and contracts, program reports, financial reports, and correspondence, 2000-2003. 10 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.8.8F

52

Thai-Cambodian border reports, 1983-1994. 3 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.6.1B

61

Thailand:

Phanat Nikhom:

This camp opened Thanksgiving Day 1980. All refugees had to pass through this camp for resettlement, health care, screening and cultural orientation before departing Thailand.

Volunteer manual, undated.

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, 1981-1989. 9 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.6.2F

62

Monthly and miscellaneous reports, 1990-1994. 8 folders.

Miscellaneous, circa 1988-circa 1994. 3 folders.

Annual reports, 1984-1993. 2 folders.

Missing reports, 1980-1981.

Sikhui Camp: Narrative, monthly, and annual reports, related correspondence, and documents, 1992-1994. 2 folders.

Location

Box

130.A.6.3B

63

Vietnam:

Appraisal and assessment, 1993.

Miscellaneous articles, research reports, 1983, 1987-1993.

The American-Vietnamese Dialogue conference report, February 8-11 1993.

Vietnam program materials, 1980, circa 1993 (bulk circa 1993). 3 folders.

In English, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Loatian, and Hmong.

Includes background articles, statistics, information, trip and other reports, concept papers, proposals, and correspondence.

Balkans

Chechnya

Colombia

Honduras

India

Middle East

Turkey

Miscellaneous Files

Refugee camps

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Domestic program records focus on charitable registrations, and also include material related to the committee's response to Hurricane Katrina. Also available are miscellaneous records related to the committee's activities in Minnesota, and proposals for early projects.

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Printed materials include books, articles, reports, journals, manuals, theses, and dissertations written by or about ARC staff and programs.

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Newspaper clippings are from the American Refugee Committee's early years.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Disaster relief.

Hmong Americans -- Minnesota.

Health care teams -- Training of.

Humanitarianism.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

International relief.

Political refugees.

Primary health care.

Refugee camps -- Africa.

Refugee camps -- Balkan Peninsula.

Refugee camps -- Cambodia.

Refugee camps -- Middle East.

Refugee camps -- Somalia.

Refugee camps -- Southeast Asia.

Refugee camps -- Sudan.

Refugee camps -- Thailand.

Refugee children.

Refugees -- Indochina.

Refugees -- Services for -- Minnesota.

Tuberculosis.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Minnesota.

Women refugees.

Organizations:

Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

Document Types:

Photographs.

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