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Turkey? Stuck out in the Cold

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Turkey and over 500,000 exposed to the cold.

Not too many days ago we celebrated Thanksgiving.  At the same time I learned over 500,000 people are exposed to cold temperatures in Eastern Turkey. 

Cold and exposed in Turkey

I have clear memories of being wet and cold in January in Ohio. 

The kind of cold that is bone chilling and cuts right through you.  What I can not imagine though ...

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Adequate Shelters do not include tents?

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Adequate Shelters do not include tents are adequate shelter.

There was a time when tents served as adequate shelter: in the past.

The problem I have is failing to understand how, in this modern age, we can have so many people who do not have adequate shelter in our world. With new technology and material, vast global distribution networks, large numbers of available resources (workers) in developing countries, and trillion dollar economies we haven’t been able to figure ...

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Heavy rains hamper shelter construction after Earthquake

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Earthquake, MYANMAR: Heavy rains hamper shelter construction.

YANGON, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) – Heavy rains pounding earthquake-struck Southern Shan State continue to hinder efforts to rebuild the homes of quake survivors, agencies say.

Family outside Earthquake Damaged HouseOf the 837 households destroyed by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake.

in late March, 88 families in 24 severely affected villages are still living out of tarpaulin tents as they await materials to rebuild, the ...

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