| There are two basic categories of emergency | | | | are also required. The first and foremost is fresh |
| shelters. One type of emergency shelter is a | | | | clean drinking water. The other requirement is |
| permanent place where homeless people, | | | | food and medical supplies. People who have been |
| battered women, run away children can find | | | | left homeless due to a disaster are vaccinated |
| refuge. These shelters provide a safe haven for | | | | against diseases that can spread in that area due |
| people who are fleeing from a situation. People | | | | to unhygienic conditions. Then proper bedding, |
| staying in these types of emergency shelters | | | | clothing becomes the next necessary requirement. |
| may stay till the time they find residence | | | | Therefore an emergency-shelter has to provide |
| elsewhere or are returned to their homes. They | | | | the basic necessities required for human beings to |
| can leave the shelter to run errands, work or | | | | survive. These are; a place to stay which is safe |
| attend schools. The shelter for homeless people is | | | | from the elements of the environment; water |
| for people who have no where else to live, and | | | | and food to sustain them, and clean clothes for |
| take up permanent residence in these shelters. | | | | them to wear. Emergency medical supplies with |
| Both these types of emergency shelters are run | | | | trained medical staff that can treat major to |
| by humanitarian groups. | | | | minor injuries have to be available at emergency |
| The other types of emergency shelters are | | | | centers. |
| those which are setup in an area that has | | | | The facilities that need to be provided at an |
| rendered people homeless due to a natural | | | | emergency-shelter will depend on the duration of |
| calamity. People who have been rendered | | | | the center remaining operational. If it's permanent |
| homeless are moved into or provided emergency | | | | emergency-shelter then bedding, food, washing |
| shelters. Emergency services like the Red Cross, | | | | and toilet facilities will need to be provided on a |
| Red Crescent, and UNHCR are the bodies that | | | | permanent basis. If it's a temporary emergency |
| respond by providing emergency shelters for the | | | | facility then additional facilities like medical care and |
| homeless. The first steps taken by these | | | | schooling will need to be provided. |
| emergency services are to find a large building | | | | There are other types of emergency-shelters |
| that's safe and can house homeless people. | | | | also which are erected on mountains, trails, |
| Usually a school building, or a hall are taken over | | | | deserts and other similar terrains where |
| and the homeless are shifted into it. | | | | occasionally people stop by. There are emergency |
| If there is no safe building left standing after a | | | | rations, fuel for fires and in some shelters an |
| natural calamity has struck, alternate | | | | emergency phone is installed. These shelters |
| emergency-shelters have to be provided. One | | | | provide temporary shelter for people who are |
| type of emergency-shelter which is very | | | | caught in a sudden storm and need shelter from |
| commonly used is tents. An open area is selected | | | | the elements. In some places emergency-shelters |
| and tents to accommodate families are setup on | | | | have been turned into permanent shelters, like in |
| it. Other than the tents, other emergency facilities | | | | war zones. |