This comes from a guy working with me on the shelter program, writing to various colleagues in shelter. Thought you'd find it interesting, and if you follow the picasa link, you can see pics of one area we're working in.
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To whom it may concern,
We are concerned about something we found today at Camp de Benediction, one of the IDP camps where we have done distributions in the past. The camp has grown very rapidly in the last week and the camp leaders are trying to stop more people from moving onto the land.
In all the other camps it appears that people are erecting temporary shelters with the expectation that they will be moving out of the camps as soon as it is possible. All the other camps also know that they are either on private property or community land. However, in this camp we hear two versions of who owns the land. It is either owned by a large landowner or by the government. Whoever owns it there now appears to be more permanent structures being put up and there are also signs of pieces of ground being marked off as if with the intention of setting up a "squatter city".
There are photos of the camp and the issues below.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ogilvia/CampDeBenediction#slideshow/5444210233449886594
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