Sanischare refugee camp (Nepali

Nepali language

Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...

: शनिस्चरे शरणार्थी शिविर; Śaniscare śaraṇārthī śivira), located near Sanischare, Kosi

Sanischare, Kosi

Sanischare is a village development committee in Morang District in the Kosi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 20,661 people living in 3943 individual households. It is the most populated VDC in Morang district. Sanischare refugee camp is one...

, Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

, is home to some 13,323 Bhutanese refugees. The camp lies on the south side of the East-West Highway

East-West Highway (Nepal)

East-West Highway in Nepal is a national highway that runs across the country from Mechi district in the east to Mahakali district in the west. It has the total length of 1024k.m....

, and contains the New Horizon Academy.

In March 2011, a fire burned much of the camp destroying about 1,200 homes. The same day, another fire also struck Goldhap

Goldhap Refugee Camp

Goldhap refugee camp is a small refugee camp in Nepal populated by just over 4,600 Bhutanese refugees as of 2011. Because of its dwindling population, the UNHCR is planning to merge Goldhap into the nearby Beldangi refugee camps...

, another Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal.