Kehidupan di pengungsian Pasar Baru Porong bagi sebagian besar korban merupakan penderitaan yang menyeluruh. Fasilitas yang serba terbatas, ketidakjelasan masa depan sampai pada nasib pendidikan anak-anak yang sangat apa adanya.

The residents of Permisan village near the Porong river in East Java have been harvesting fish from their ponds for generations, but since an environmental disaster at the Lapindo Brantas gas mining site in May 2006, the area has been suffering from vast eruptions of volcanic mud, which have buried nearby villages and displaced thousands of people.