Firefighters spent more than two hours putting out the blaze, which destroyed 200 homes, many of them small shacks, authorities said.

MINUSTAH, in support of the national police, also undertook operations in the shantytowns of Port au Prince.

Most of the rural Bangladeshi population lives in corrugated tin huts that can get dangerously hot under the scorching sunlight.

We are capable of building skyscrapers hundreds of meters high, while elsewhere we are tearing down the tin shacks of the poorest among us.

The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.

Consider Katatura, a shantytown on the outskirts of Windhoek into which the former apartheid regime forced tens of thousands of blacks in the 1950 s and 1960 s.

The kingdom, however, was marked by a feudal regime, where Libya had a low literacy rate of 10 , a low life expectancy of 57 years, and 40 of the population lived in shanties, tents, or caves.

Several other measures have been taken, including the provision of more qualified midwives in each village and their delivery posts (or maternity huts) and the promotion of public awareness and support, through the Mother Friendly Movement and the Alert Husband campaign.

The displaced are being sheltered under plastic sheeting provided by UNICEF or in huts made from branches, leaving many of those affected without proper sanitation and with very little clean water, medicine or much needed food.

So, whether it s this microbus meeting room that we have in one our buildings at IDEO or at Pixar, where the animators work in wooden huts and decorated caves or at the Googleplex, where it s famous for its beach volleyball courts, and even this massive dinosaur skeleton with pink flamingos on it.