Sami set up a makeshift clinic in Cairo.

They lived in makeshift homes without running water.

A 2002 estimate was that 4,320 families or about 20,000 people resided in these makeshift camps.

An old man with a skull cap sits at a makeshift currency exchange while others sit in sun.

Our people have been held hostage, condemned to live in makeshift camps, under traumatic physical and psychological conditions.

Many survivors were treated for injuries in emergency makeshift hospitals, but many more died of gangrene, malnutrition, and infectious diseases.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.

As Israel forces bombs residential neighborhoods, tens of thousands have been made homeless and are forced to take refuge in makeshift shelters.

In troubled times, during the dictatorship of Mussolini, Rita had secretly studied nerve fibers in a makeshift lab hidden in her home.

Indians are natural leaders in frugal innovation, imbued as they are with the jugaad system of developing makeshift but workable solutions from limited resources.

In early 1995, the Gunns won their first Tag Team Championship by defeating the makeshift team of Bob Holly and 1 2 3 Kid.

During October, thousands of civilians throughout the Darfur region fled to the outskirts of their villages, makeshift settlements and camps for internally displaced persons.

In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse).

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.

A makeshift medical centre has been set up, with doctors and nurses volunteering to treat the injured, as demonstrators vow to remain in their positions until Mubarak leaves.

She will share a makeshift detention center in the parliament compound with her longtime political rival another ex Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who was also detained on charges of corruption.

Under such conditions, many of the men and women treating the wounded in makeshift underground hospitals can range from first year medical students to people with no medical training at all.

Back on land, Randy Olson photographed a makeshift fish market in Africa, where the remains of filleted fish were sold to the locals, the main parts having already been sent to Europe.

With conflict and insecurity plaguing North and West Africa and civil war lingering in Syria, people continue to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea on makeshift boats to seek sanctuary in Europe.

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.

Since 2012, several clashes between hardline Buddhist and Muslim groups have displaced the Rohingya from their communities. Some fled to neighboring Southeast Asian countries as boat refugees while many took shelter in makeshift camps.

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

In plantations, trucks pick children up from their homes and bring them to makeshift tents located in nearby provinces to stay and work for periods lasting from two weeks to a month without their parents.

In 2013 when Saudi authorities engaged in similar operations, Ethiopian migrants were the victims of deadly physical assaults. Workers who sought to return to Ethiopia were held in makeshift detention centers without adequate food or shelter.

Marie Colvin and Rémi Olchik were killed last week, when the makeshift media centre they were at in Baba Amr, in Homs, Syria, was attacked. Both were journalists on a mission. She was the Sunday Times' foreign correspondent and he was her photographer.

Along with 3,000 other displaced Gazans, 32 year old Ghadeer has been living in a makeshift shelter with her three children ever since Israeli forces bombed the house she was staying in. The bombing left her in a wheelchair. Photo by author.

Mahmoud said the Israeli troops dragged him back into his house, blindfolded him and wrapped him in a blanket on the floor as they began to blow holes in the walls to use as makeshift sniper slits what US troops in Afghanistan called murder holes.

At the same time, communities have been torn apart as a result of bombing campaigns, which have destroyed the very homes we came to protect. This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.

Indians are natural leaders in frugal innovation, imbued as they are with the jugaad system of developing makeshift but workable solutions from limited resources. Jugaad essentially conveys a way of life, a worldview that embodies the quality of making do with what you have to meet your needs.

As of 1 May 2015, international aid agencies like Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and the Red Cross were able to start medically evacuating the critically wounded by helicopter from outlying areas, which were cut off from the capital city, Kathmandu, and treating others in mobile and makeshift facilities.

But a pathbreaking initiative in Lebanon, involving teachers, aid agencies, and education charities has opened a small window of hope. 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.