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Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun: even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.
How can the EU transform ramshackle decision-making mechanisms that have been re-jigged and subject to makeshift additions for almost 40 years into an efficient, working democracy?
Those who survive are arriving at makeshift camps just across the border in neighboring Bangladesh, which, as one of the world’s poorest countries, lacks the resources, though not the will, to offer proper shelter to the swelling ranks of refugees.
If you reach the scene of the drop in time, the next challenge is to build a makeshift roadblock to stop the truck from off-loading the cocaine.
This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.
Within the camp, a small makeshift office, surrounded by more barbed wire and hundreds of despairing refugees, would admit one or two per hour for their first interview.
The world rightly focuses on the tragedy in Darfur, but overlooks another four million Sudanese still displaced as a result of the north-south conflict, many of whom continue to live in terrible poverty in Khartoum slums or in makeshift camps across the country, with little opportunity to re-build their lives.
Every day, another once-vibrant Syrian school is bombed or militarized, with two million children now in refugee camps or exiled to makeshift tents or huts.
There was an exodus by air, towards the Seventh Fleet patrolling the South China Sea; an exodus by sea saw waves of barges, fishing boats and other makeshift vessels.
Thousands more languish in makeshift camps with little or no support.
Last but not least, makeshift solutions such as protracted wage freezes may eventually erode the quality of public services.
Therefore, makeshift arrangements will have to be found.
So makeshift assistance will be sufficient to allow Greece to succeed, but that leaves Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland.
Together they constitute too large a portion of the euro zone to be helped out by makeshift arrangements.
Arab Prospects Beyond the Arab SpringCAIRO – In December 2013, at a makeshift cultural center in downtown Cairo, a young Sudanese recited poems from The Papers of Room No.Eight, a collection written by the Egyptian poet Amal Donkol weeks before his death in 1983.
The Right to Education for RefugeesLONDON – From Fawaz’s home in a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Syria, where he lives with his now-displaced family, one danger has been traded for another.
I first met her in a makeshift classroom situated in a sea of tents; later, I saw her again, playing with other children on a rough playground.
The children I spoke to told me of their continued desire to learn in the camp’s makeshift schools, crammed into classes and taught in shifts running from before dawn until after dark.
But makeshift solutions have become more contentious and harder to find, culminating in this year’s gimmick-ridden ten-month patch.
And yet, although a new European Treaty might not emerge in the coming years, limiting further integration, the makeshift response to Europe’s economic crisis has fueled calls for a new legal basis for continuing the necessary eurozone reforms.
I have visited the homes of the bereaved, and lit incense sticks and candles at makeshift shrines.
The ongoing conflict in Syria has driven a vast number of refugees into camps that have evolved from temporary dwellings into makeshift cities.
Indians are natural leaders in frugal innovation, imbued as they are with the jugaad system of developing makeshift but workable solutions from limited resources.
An Indian villager constructs a makeshift vehicle to transport his livestock and goods by rigging a wooden cart with an irrigation hand pump that serves as an engine.
The result has been the creation of brigades of traveling tellers with hand-held devices, who have converted the living rooms of village homes into makeshift branches, taking deposits as low as a dollar.
The solution to the refugee education problem cannot be to shunt children into a parallel system of schooling that relies on outdated materials, makeshift classrooms, or untrained teachers.
Makeshift camps are overcrowded, lacking in basic resources, and vulnerable to natural disasters; already, a cyclone has destroyed some camps.
What are the precise effects of quarantining people in a building, a makeshift hospital, or a city?
As a result, refugees often languish in makeshift camps that fail to meet basic needs, from clean water to physical security.
And hotels in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the US have repurposed themselves into makeshift hospitals to help cope with the surge in patients.
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