The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada s history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy remote refugee camps, worked long days in humid conditions, subsisted on dried noodles and green tea, and sometimes slept on their worktables while rats scurried around them all in order to resettle thousands displaced by war and oppression. After initially accepting 7,000 refugees from camps in...

The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada s history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy remote refugee camps, worked long days in humid conditions, subsisted on dried noodles and green tea, and sometimes slept on their worktables while rats scurried around them all in order to resettle thousands displaced by war and oppression. After initially accepting 7,000 refugees from camps in...