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- Tarot
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- September 20, 1992
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- Introduction:
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- Thank you for down-loading Tarot, a small Windows utility program
- that gives a tarot spread. I wrote Tarot to aid the Vietnamese refugee
- children without parents who are in refugee camps in the Philippines.
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- The Center for Aid to Displaced Persons, CADP, is an agency run by
- the Philippine Daughters of Charity of the Catholic church which
- provides shelter, counseling and education to the unaccompanied minors
- in the Philippines First Asylum Camp (PFAC). If you enjoy Tarot, I
- beg you to make a donation to CADP (no matter how small). You may send
- the money directly to CADP or you may send it to Hong Bang, an
- organization in New Orleans that works closely with CADP. Hong Bang
- will forward any money received for CADP directly with no overhead
- costs of any kind. Both CADP and Hong Bang are nonprofit
- agencies staffed through volunteers. Hong Bang is dedicated to
- improving the health, education and social welfare of Vietnamese,
- and has helped volunteers work in the refugee camps.
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- Address:
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- CADP, Inc. CADP, Inc.
- PO Box 4278 c/o Hong Bang
- Manila 1082, Philippines 2476 Park Place Dr.
- Gretna, LA 70053
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- Excerpts from CADP's Mission Statement:
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- The Care for the most vulnerable groups among refugees
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- Un-Accompanied Minor Refugees (UAM): These are youngsters from 3 to
- 6 years of age. They are alone in the camp without the guidance of elder
- siblings or relatives. Upon assessment, they would be placed, with their
- consent, in foster home care under the guidance of the adults who would
- be recruited, trained and supervised by the professional staff. In these
- homes they would enjoy guided family relationships among members whose
- roles and functions are clearly described and made known for the whole
- group. There are assigned adults who act as their counselors to guide
- and defend them in case they get into trouble.
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- The UAM enjoy attentive concerns from the staff who coordinate with
- the schools so that all UAM attend formal education, language and
- vocational training. The adults are aware of the youth's needs for
- affection, privacy and adventure. They also have greater intakes than
- the ordinary people. Thus food supplement for breakfast is granted.
- Clothing and footwear are supplied to them periodically upon their
- counselor's requisition. Group discussions on topics that interest them,
- sports training in soccer, volleyball, basketball, table tennis,
- VoViNam martial arts, are available to the UAM. Periodically, the UAM
- are sent to the seas for picnics, camping and sport competitions with
- Filipino Youth. Character training is conducted on these occasions.
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- Rehabilitation for the Handicapped Refugees: UNHCR showed an
- acute interest in the fate of this vulnerable group. CADP reinforced
- these concerns by accepting to conduct a special rehabilitation program
- for all the handicapped. They have tutorial classes for the mentally
- slow learners, the braille and sign language training for the blind and
- the deaf-mute individuals. They also undergo vocational and language
- training on a personal basis. Physical therapy is available for
- motivated individuals. The handicapped's families and neighbors are
- included in the reorientation of their attitude towards the impaired
- individuals. Through the activities, the handicapped refugees learn to
- develop a strong sense of self sufficiency in all their daily activities.
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- CADP's AIMS
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- 1. CADP uses Advocacy and Clarification as methods by which the
- refugee's legitimate aspirations can be heard and their
- responsibilities as members of a free world can be made known
- to them.
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- 2. CADP mobilizes people to participate in the management of their
- human and dignified life, as responsible persons and as children
- of God.
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- 3. CADP searches to fully meet the crucial needs of people who could
- not function normally in society, due to their physical and
- social impediments by a discrimination distribution of resources
- in favor of the most deprived.
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- CADP was born with needs of the refugees in the first months of
- their Exodus. CADP wishes to see the Displaced Persons end their
- marginal life in the country the had opted to stay for the past 17 years.
- CADP pledges to see the last of the asylum seeker off safely, to wherever
- their final destinations may be, providing them compassion as CADP
- walks with them in their painful journey.
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- from The Mission of CADP, Inc. 1975 - 1992
- by Sr. Pascale Le thi Triu, DC
- Director and Program Coordinator
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- About Tarot:
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- This program does the Celtic Cross Tarot spread. When it is
- executed, the deck is shuffled and dealt. There are ten buttons
- corresponding to each card position. Click on a button and the
- card is displayed along with its name and its divinatory meaning.
- Click on the card name button to close the window. The menu
- has options to reshuffle the deck and create a new spread, disable
- the sounds, show the meaning of the card positions and the suits
- of the cards or browse the tarot deck.
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- I wrote this program in hope that some kindhearted people
- enjoy it enough to help CADP care for the poor, lonely children
- in the camps. Everyday the situation grows worse for the refugees and
- for children with no parents in the camps the situation is becoming
- unbearable. CADP helps them to endure by providing them with
- counselling, education, recreation and shelter. I pray to God that
- this program in some way helps the volunteers in CADP to continue
- their good work. Working as a volunteer for CADP was one of the
- most fulfilling experiences of my life, and it breaks my heart to
- see the conditions of the refugees in the camps today.
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- Distribution:
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- This program may be freely distributed without cost, provided
- that it is not changed in any way. The current version is 3.2.
- Bug reports and comments and suggestions can be sent to Anthony Nguyen
- in care of Hong Bang.
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- A Closing Plea:
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- I hope this program Tarot Version 3.2 will move people to help
- CADP help the refugee children in Palawan, the Philippines. The
- situation for the refugee children continues to grow worse every day.
- It's hard to believe the world cares so little for the suffering of
- children. Images on TV bombard us here with so much suffering that we
- sometimes become numb and cynical only to protect ourselves. But please
- never forget that as individuals, we can do a lot to help one another.
- These children are desperate for shelter and education and their future
- depends on the kindness of others like you. Please help.
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- Good-bye and God bless you,
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- Anthony Nguyen
- Vestal, NY