Exhibit brings refugees’ plight home to students

All you can eat for the entire day: 2 1/2 cups of rice, 1 1/2 cups of beans, a few grams of salt and sugar and half an ounce of oil to cook with.For days, months, maybe even years, this is the extent of what’s on the menu. ‘No guacamole, no tortillas or enchiladas,’ added Dr. Tomoko Kurokawa, a local physician who told 14 middle school students from South Los Angeles about life in refugee camps. The kids’ collective response: ‘Aww, no way!’ and ‘Blech.’ But it’s a reality for 42 million people worldwide who live in refugee camps from Colombia to Sudan to Iraq to Cambodia. The reality is captured in a simulated refugee camp the 14 sixth-graders toured recently in Griffith Park.