Children play, mother mourns: life grinds on in a Turkey camp
Antayka, Turkey Reuters With a smile on her face but pain in her eyes, Fatima Asheri watched her two surviving children play with other young earthquake survivors at a camp for displaced people near the centre of Turkey’s disaster zone. “The children are having fun and playing. But the parents feel defeated,” the 28-year-old said, […]
Turkey begins to rebuild for 1.5 million left homeless by earthquakes as toll tops 50,000
Antakya/Ankara, TurkeyReuters Turkey has begun work to rebuild homes following this month’s devastating earthquakes, a government official said on Friday, as the combined death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 50,000. More than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed or were severely damaged in the 6th February earthquakes that killed tens of thousands in Turkey […]
Earthquake response: How a hasty rebuild could leave Turkey at risk of another quake disaster
CEYDA CAGLAYAN and CAN SEZER, of Reuters, reports on calls for careful planning before rebuilding takes place in the aftermath of the earthquake which devastated large parts of the country…
Nine survivors pulled from Turkey’s rubble as earthquake death toll passes 40,000
Antakya, Turkey Reuters Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now struggling without shelter or enough food in the bitter cold. The disaster, with a combined death toll in Turkey and […]
Turkey turns to tents and tourist resorts to house quake homeless
Istanbul/Kahramanmaras, TurkeyReuters Turkey is grappling with one of the biggest challenges from the earthquake that flattened a swathe of its towns and cities: how to shelter hundreds of thousands of people left homeless in the middle of winter. Banks of tents are being erected in stadiums and shattered city centres, and Mediterranean and Aegean summer […]
Postcards: German churches save on heat, still help the needy warm up
The Associated Press report from Berlin on how churches in Germany are stepping up to help people struggling with freezing temperatures and rising energy costs…
Homelessness
We have a homelessness epidemic in Australia at the moment. They say many of us are only two failed paycheques, or three interest rate rises away from homelessness. PICTURE: Kylie De Guia/Unsplash How can you protect yourself against homelessness? Watch your debt. Do your best to reduce debt and build savings. Join a community. The […]
Forced relocation or safe haven?: US cities push the homeless to live in tent camps
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how some US cities tackling a surge of street homelessness are offering official camps while penalising people sleeping in public elsewhere…
Brazilian city’s homeless get incentive for going to shelter: beds for their pets
Canoas, Brazil Reuters A small city in southern Brazil has found a way to attract more homeless people to one of its shelters on chilly winter nights: They now also take in people’s pets. Canoas – a city with an estimated population of 348,000 in the state of Rio Grande do Sul – came to […]
Evoking Diana, Prince William commits to homelessness cause
London, UKReuters Prince William evoked his late mother Princess Diana’s work for charity, as he described as “eye-opening” selling copies on a London street of a magazine that helps to combat homelessness, saying he was committed to highlighting the problem. William, second in line to the British throne, was spotted in early June standing on […]