Sentence examples for mass shelters from inspiring English sources

It is outside one of these mass shelters, that we met Julian.

"We had to put them in mass shelters and family tents, so those who were in mass shelters are our priority because it is not a dignified way to live," she said.

Julian is technically savvy and teaches his fellow refugees in the mass shelters how to use the phone.

The overcrowding in the camp (intended to have a capacity of 66,000 people) has gotten so bad that mass shelters have been set up to house thousands of people under atrocious living conditions.

Mends-Cole said that UNHCR will reduce overcrowding in Nyarugusu by working to first relocate those living in mass shelters or in flood zones, while ensuring that new arrivals are processed in Nduta as well.

The immigrants, interviewed in an old basketball gymnasium that had been converted into a mass shelter, said they had been lost at sea for 10 days.

Through the 19th century, disaster relief consisted largely of emergency grants of food, clothing, and medical care and the provision of mass shelter through hastily organized local committees, often with the aid of voluntary contributions of money or supplies from other communities or countries.

They were living in a mass shelter tent with 20 other families and a cholera outbreak had just taken the lives of several of the people living in their tent.

Mass evacuation shelters, like those run by Red Cross, could also be a risk.

As the day wore on, officials pleaded with the antsy masses in shelters to stay patient and stay put, a frustrating exercise especially during brief periods when the winds lulled.

Several thousand residents were provided food, clothing and shelter across the country in mass-feeding shelters.