Carina Hoang escaped Vietnam and resettled in the United States when she was 16 years old. In 2012, she was appointed as a Special Representatives of UNHCR.
Carina returned to Kuku Island as an adult to search for the remains of her cousin, who she had lost on the journey. When she posted photographs of some graves on her website, many Vietnamese people contacted her to find the graves of their relatives, mainly people who survived the high seas but succumbed to disease and malnutrition.
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