Those working the corn fields may live in simple grass shelters alongside their crops until April or May, when they return to the bark houses.
A group of approximately 1,700 displaced people were concentrated within a small area in the centre of town, living under appalling conditions, under the trees or in grass shelters.
In her small grass shelter, there's no food in the family store.
By Cifora Monier DAHA, Chad, 18 February 2009 – Musa sits quietly on a mat under a small grass shelter, and the bewilderment in his eyes is palpable.
DAHA, Chad, 18 February 2009 – Musa sits quietly on a mat under a small grass shelter, and the bewilderment in his eyes is palpable.
UNICEF Chad aids families fleeing violence in the Central African Republic DAHA, Chad, 18 February 2009 – Musa sits quietly on a mat under a small grass shelter, and the bewilderment in his eyes is palpable.
She lives with her only surviving daughter in a plastic and grass shelter that hardly covers them from the rain and sun, at a camp in the former University of Gahayr.
Our tents had been pitched on a crab grass lawn, sheltered by sweet-scented frangipani trees.
Tussocky and fine grasses provide shelter for spiders, beetles and small mammals which, in turn, become food for predators including barn owls.
And in Haiti right after the devastating earthquake that hit soon after the New Year in 2010, I mourned Haitian children buried under rubble of their collapsed school, witnessed little ones having legs and arms amputated from their injuries, and trained students to comfort so many suffering on hospital grasses, seeking shelter in church yards and sleeping on the streets.
And that's not the only reason to appreciate it: in one form or another, grass can provide shelter, food, decoration and even music.
