| Losing your home in a natural or a man-made | | | | to live were left homeless and displaced. The |
| disaster is a terrible ordeal. The international | | | | international community yet again reached |
| community has taken pains to get involved in | | | | forward to help the displaced and provided |
| goodwill programs that provide emergency | | | | emergency shelters. |
| shelters to those who have lost their homes. | | | | When talking about man-caused disasters, places |
| People from all corners of the world donate | | | | like Pakistan, occupied Palestinian territories or |
| generously to both governmental and | | | | Gaza, and Congo come to mind. These places |
| non-governmental organizations. It is the job of | | | | have been crippled due to war raging within their |
| the organization to responsibly take the | | | | territories. In such cases, it is difficult to pinpoint |
| emergency materials to the victims. | | | | which areas have been hit the worst. The |
| A recent increase in international disasters has | | | | international community has provided emergency |
| made it even more imperative for the | | | | shelters to the displaced persons of Swat and |
| international community to get together and | | | | regions where fighting is going on between |
| provide temporary residence to victims of natural | | | | different factions. |
| and manmade disasters, such as earthquakes, | | | | In other cases, disaster shelters have also been |
| floods, wars and famines etc. | | | | provided in various other international regions. The |
| International organizations like Red Cross, UNHCR | | | | wood fires in Australia, earlier this year, led to |
| and Shelter Centre deal with providing homeless | | | | displacement of the locals. Many homes were |
| people with temporary homes and other | | | | destroyed in these horrible fires that raged for |
| emergency services such as shelter boxes. These | | | | days and days. The flood in Colombia and |
| temporary homes are provided free of cost and | | | | earthquake in Italy also led to people losing their |
| are need-based. | | | | homes. Emergency shelters were also provided to |
| Some recent global disasters, where international | | | | the displaced there. |
| organizations have provided relief and emergency | | | | Storm surge in Papua New Guinea and hurricanes |
| shelter and services, mostly comprise of the third | | | | in Cuba took lives as well. Both natural disasters |
| world. Indonesia and the beautiful island of | | | | took place in the year 2008 and led people to |
| Sumatra are the two archipelagos that have been | | | | extend support to the victims. Hurricanes also |
| most affected due to recent earthquakes that hit | | | | disturbed the normal mode of life in Haiti and |
| the region. Emergency shelters were provided to | | | | Turks and Caicos. Places like Bolivia, Ecuador, |
| the displaced, and it is hoped that the victims | | | | Belize, Nepal and Ukraine witnessed a series of |
| would find new ways and means to get back to | | | | floods that washed away not only the |
| their normal life. | | | | employment opportunities but residences from |
| A lot of water related natural disasters have also | | | | the people as well. Yet again, the international |
| occurred in the African and the Asian regions. | | | | community took an active part in providing |
| India, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Niger, Samoa and | | | | temporary residences to those who were lucky |
| Philippines are the areas that experienced either | | | | to survive and provided them a small chance of |
| floods, mudslides, tsunamis or typhoons. Many | | | | building a normal life all over again. |
| innocent people lost their lives, and those who got | | | | |