They took me to their home, a one room shack made out of corrugated iron sheets.

BBC: The brick chippers of Dhaka

For those who stay behind, the priorities are building tools and materials, especially corrugated-iron sheets, which are in short supply.

ECONOMIST: Many survivors of October's earthquake are still at risk

His tiny private school, made of rusting sheets of corrugated metal, was struggling - too many orphans, no money, no textbooks.

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They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts