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Dr. Rupak Rauniar Organizes Collection for Bhutanese Refugees
8/25/2008
 Dr. Rupak Rauniar, UST assistant professor of management and marketing, organized a donation campaign in the Houston area to collect items of daily necessities for Bhutanese refugees from Nepal who recently arrived in Houston.
In 1991, the government of Nepal provided a temporary refugee base for more than
200,000 Bhutanese refugees who were expelled from their country, Bhutan, for political and social reasons.
As a part of the United States agreement with International Migration Organization to resettle 60,000 Bhutanese refugees in different cities of America, 15 families have arrived in Houston since July 2008.
Approximately 1,000 Bhutanese will now be able to call Houston their home in next few months. Earlier this year, a massive fire engulfed 1,200 refugee homes out of 1,500 in the Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal. These newly arrived families had lost all their belongings.
Rauniar serves as the assistant secretary for Nepalese Association of Houston (NAH), a community based, not-for-profit organization. In his donation campaign through NAH, Rauniar was able to collect monetary donation and other items such as clothing, shoes, utensils and kitchenware, toys, home appliances, medical kit, etc. that would be handed over to these families on August 16.
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