Sentence examples for makeshift workers from inspiring English sources

MOSCOW — A makeshift workers' dormitory here that was cited for fire code violations a month ago caught fire early on Tuesday, killing at least 17 people, officials said, and highlighting Russia's worsening problem with the enforcement of basic safety standards.

Surreptitiously checking out the workers' makeshift living quarters where they were cooking dinner on jury-rigged stoves, I wandered around looking for Elisita Balbontin, a Chilean artist who was supposedly somewhere in the vicinity.

They prevented anyone from setting up makeshift shelters, outreach workers said.

Outside a makeshift dormitory for migrant workers, men were slumped under clothes hung to dry.

A clothes shop was turned into a makeshift morgue where rescue workers laid body parts found in the debris of the once-prestigious landmark.

But from the milky windows of stifling rooms in a makeshift camp, the migrant workers from other, poorer countries, stranded by war and, in some cases, forsaken by their employers, watched cruise ships — and salvation — depart.

This idea of sex workers as makeshift therapists is nothing new.

"Thirty to forty percent of them are migrant workers renting makeshift houses in Tambora," said Djaharuddin, the Tambora district head.

Both crashes occurred close to the southern city of Foggia, which hosts half a dozen makeshift camps for illegal workers.

UNICEF, through a fundraising partnership with Pampers, supplied the vaccines, provided logistical support to get them to remote areas and helped to train health workers in makeshift vaccination centres.

Gathered at a makeshift funeral parlor on Sunday, workers and their families bade farewell to 22 colleagues who were killed.