I help maintain family integrity by housing all family members together. I also ensure the needs of the elderly, infants and others with illnesses or disabilities are met. I make sure everyone is comfortable. Compared to life on the run from marauding Serbian troops, or life in the overcrowded 'tent city' refugee camps in Macedonia and Albania, the Kosovar Albanians at Fort Dix might have been satisfied merely to have a roof over their heads. But Alexander and her colleagues have provided much more, building a miniature community with facilities designed to make the refugees feel at home.
Teenagers play soccer and volleyball, while mothers watch over children on the swings.
Still others search for relatives or look for news from home using computers in the village Internet Information Center. Some of the children are afraid at first, because of the images they remember of the Serbian soldiers in Kosovo. But after a little while, they realize we are here to help them and not hurt them. Some of the refugees talk about their ordeals back in Kosovo. One man mentioned in an interview that his village was destroyed and his daughter was killed.