Almost 3, 000 people have been evacuated from their homes, many stranded in emergency shelters.
Current companies in the program include ActiveDesk, World Housing Solutions (emergency shelters), and Axon Optics (migraine glasses).
Six villages were destroyed, and thousands are spending the night in emergency shelters or in the open.
Emergency shelters are also being airlifted to Mashhad in eastern Iran, some of it provided by the United Kingdom.
Following superstorm Sandy, New York City shifted many people made homeless from emergency shelters to hotels across the city.
Oneida County's emergency shelters do not accept sex offenders, people with violent felony convictions and people with active addictions.
At least 18, 000 houses were destroyed and 130, 000 damaged, and more than 200, 000 people are living in emergency shelters.
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Some emergency shelters have already been erected, but more will be needed.
Calls to an emergency number run by Samusocial de Paris, a government-funded charity that allocates beds in emergency shelters, doubled between 2009 and 2010.
Neighboring Onondaga County doesn't have the same problem, because its emergency shelters accept people in those categories, Ben Dublin, chief of staff for Onondaga County Executive Joanne Mahoney, said.
At least 3, 651 people checked into New York City's emergency shelters by 6 p.m. on Monday, fewer than the 10, 000 who did the same during Tropical Storm Irene last year.
More than three weeks after the hurricane struck, with thousands of animals still clogging emergency shelters in Louisiana, FEMA hasn't provided basic veterinary equipment and supplies to its teams there.
One mayor's decision to evacuate a town centre on 31 January spread fear to the surrounding municipalities, where thousands of residents ended up being advised to sleep in their cars or in schools transformed into emergency shelters.
In New York City, roughly 2, 500 people had booked into emergency storm shelters, less than 4% of the total capacity, nearly 24 hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered an evacuation of 375, 000 people from the city's low-lying areas.
In Diyarbakir and elsewhere in the south-east, new efforts are being made to protect vulnerable women through emergency hotlines and shelters for abused women.
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Yet 17 percent of shelters had to decrease emergency shelter last year.
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She detailed other steps for preparing citizens, including establishing a "robust network" of serviceable shelters for times of emergency, full disclosure by all levels of government, town meetings organized by members of Congress and organized media campaigns.
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But "whether that means out of town or to local shelters of last resort would depend on emergency planners' decision at that moment, " an agency spokeswoman told the paper.
He's also directed emergency workers to begin airlifting Katrina's survivors to other states, saying shelters in Texas are near capacity.
But emergency officials say the enormous scope of hurricane damage has slowed down the process of getting them out of the shelters.
In Mississippi, a spokesman for the state department of emergency management said that more than 12, 400 evacuees, many of them from Louisiana, were staying in 97 shelters.
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