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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (32761)	4/24/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: ACS_101	Respond to of 122087

A@P -- Being a small part of what you are doing is more reward than I can count. The funny thing is, its not about the $$$$$ anymore. Its much bigger and richer than that. -- Alan

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (32761)	4/24/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: ACS_101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

The biggest obstacle the Embassy will throw you is how physically relocating people makes it harder for refugees to reconnect with family and friends. The web could be an incredible tool to help us. In the past, when refugees were taken away from their local land, they couldn't find family or friends anymore. We now have the resources to post names, pictures, identity info, etc., anyone with access can search it from anywhere. Then messages can begin to flow, connecting people back together with their kin. Some agency must already be doing this ... the UNHCR claims everyone in the camps is registered ... registration info ought to be uploadable to a publicly searchable database. This could drastically shorten the time it takes to get people back in touch with each other.... One of Milosevic's worst cruelties was stripping everyone's identity papers. But this indignity can be overcome like never before. The model of keeping unfortunate displaced kids penned up in misery for two years while we prove to ourselves that their parents are dead is medieval and obsolete. We should be able to shelter them in our homes and reassure them that the the world is not a concentration camp, while helping them to get back "home" someday....even if its for a week or a month.... its just plane tickets. Maybe you can help the embassy staff to understand they need to "make a bridge to the 21st century".... Alan