It offers basic shelter and a handful of bunk beds but no blankets, heating or water.
Some evacuees are focused on something even more basic than shelter: finding their parents or children.
The Economist recently defined middle class as the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter.
Diana Farrell, who is now a member of America's National Economic Council but until recently worked for McKinsey, a consultancy that has spent a lot of time studying the middle classes, reckons they begin at roughly the point where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter.
We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights.
It has been UNHCR's job to register them and provide them with shelter and basic relief items like mattresses, blankets and kitchen sets.
"As those awaiting repatriation from Kosti to South Sudan are in a vulnerable position and lack many basic services including adequate shelter, vital and quick collaboration is needed from Sudan and South Sudan to alleviate the hardship of those stranded in Kosti, " Ali Al-Za'tari, the U.N.
Once aboard the U.S. ship, the migrants were given food, water, shelter and "basic medical attention" before being repatriated to Cuba.
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When their parents die, families disintegrate and meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, and education become extremely hard.
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The key here is that the child must pay at least half his own expenses for basic support--food, shelter and clothing.
But neither do we want an economy that goes backward, back to a time when a larger share of people are employed in providing the established basic services, especially food, shelter and energy.
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In a great disaster like this one, victims are first concerned with their basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care.
But the rail operator said the station "still lacks some very basic customer facilities", including a shelter and information screens.
They said that as humanitarian organisations, they had been doing all they could to help those affected by the fighting by providing shelter, food and other basic necessities, "but it has not nearly been enough".
Upon separating from active duty in the USMC in December 1989 to attend the University of South Carolina as a full-time student, I was introduced to veterans' homelessness through VA's Student Work Study Program where I worked twenty hours a week on behalf of homeless veterans to help them secure food, travel, shelter and life's basic needs.
No, the statement is not that access to a computer at home is a basic human right, along with food, shelter and clothing that the rest of us must stump up taxes to pay for.
The charity wants the government to change the law to give owners a legal obligation to provide animals with basic care, such as food, water, shelter and veterinary care.
When Congress decided to remove the paired-share REIT tax shelter on all future acquisitions, Gosman's basic plan came apart.
This project was founded specifically to help the needy children who lack basic necessities within the slums and Villages, particularly education, shelter, and food.
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With little fanfare two weeks ago, a key United Nations commission made a remarkable statement: it declared, unambiguously, that broadband access is a basic human right, right up there with the right to healthcare, shelter and food.
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Owing to the basic truth that we produce in order to consume, and that consumption of shelter is a given, the best path for the government to take in order to save housing would be to de-emphasize its ownership, or at the very least make it equal in the eyes of the law with regard to other investments.
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