Camp Tasovcici in Capljina, 10 miles from Medjugorje, is an old army camp, designed for short-term use. There are 120 families in the camp. It was opened in 1992 and has now been in use housing refugees for a very long 15 years. It is inevitably deteriorating. The huts, in rows, are about 12 ft sq accommodating families of up to 8 people. If children are teenagers now, that is very crowded indeed. Half the space is divided for sleeping and half for living and in the open porch area at the front, most people have an oven (temperature control usually opening or closing the door!) and a washing machine (probably temperamental and not new). They manage! Water and electricity is supplied to the camp, though the authorities now send the refugees electricity bills they can never pay so they live with the threat of the electricity being cut off. There are 2 showers and loos for every 10 families and they are basic, hole in the ground loos, only privacy being a curtain. Hot water is intermittent and the walls running with water are black with damp. It doesn't take much imagination to know this is difficult BUT everyone is so clean and their standards are so high. It is amazing. Shoes off to go into a hut is the norm for them.
