How can I construct a house for a shelter-less family affected by Pakistan's earthquake?
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Well, maybe get in touch with an International Organization like the Red Cross and inquire with them, to what you can offer and what the family needs and how you can contribute to thier succesful adventure.\n\nI'm sure there has to be something, like Habitat for Humanity, or some such thing like that...\n\n\nJesse
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No food if you dint have enough space, tests have shown that a human can survive about 2 months with out food\nWater is essential (spend it wisely if you don't have a river near by)\nSomething to start a fire(matches,candle,magnifying glass,deodorant)\nKnife\nSmall flash light\nCompass (you don't really need it if your dad is 40 yards away)\nRope\nWorm Clothing (on you)\n2 Survivable blankets (something watter proof) and use rope for one to tie to trees above ground and second to put as a mattress on ground\nBook to not get bored ( something to so time passes faster)\nuse leaves as a mattress and pillow
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You could use a saltine cracker box and use 4-6 springs glued onto the bottom and on the other end of the springs glue a wooden block.  The wooden block would be buried in the soil as well as the springs.  When an earthquake hits, the building moves on the springs instead of cracking and falling.\n\nBy the way, that is an actual construction used in earthquake resistant buildings.
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DONT SEND MONEY. Send supplies to refuge camps. Blankets and food is more important right now than school supplies. Donations or blanket drives could help them a lot.\n\nGood luck. I can tell you really care about the issue and i hope that you can help them. Lord knows they need it.
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Call your local police department and ask them to help you get to a shelter for battered women. There, in most cases, you can stay until you find a job and a place to live. A lot of them provide job training and assist in job placement. I wish I could do more for you but at least this is a start. God speead. Oh, and the shelter is in a secret place where your husband cannot find you.
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http://scotland.shelter.org.uk/policy/policy-6435.cfm\n\nI hope this helps...scroll all the way down to the bottom, there is a phone number...what a kind offer artic ranger who answered above gave you....
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talk to your caseworker. Talk to womens assistance groups in your area like a battered womens shelter.
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I was always told to stand in a doorway.  I grew up in Alaska and experienced many quakes.  I never lived in an apartment complex.  I would definately stay off the stair and/or elevator once the earthquake began.  Do you have an earthquake survival kit?  It might be good idea to put one together if you don't.
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Get out of the mobile home and go to a sturdy building if there is one nearby. If no buildings available, take a blanket or pillow to protect your head and lie face down in a ditch or depression in the ground. If you live in a tornado prone area there are usually tornado shelters available. Find out if there are any in your area and make arrangements in advance for the use of it during storms.
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Go to the local homeless shelter and they will set you up with all the info you need. Not to mention some food, clothing, and probably a hot shower.
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I found a few links to websites offering grants to Christian or non-profit institutions. The catch is that most of these groups give grants to churches and charities to spend on providing food and services to the community, not to spend on building their own churches. And of course, government grants are completely out of the question, as that is illegal.\n\nYou might try hitting up a Christian advocacy group for a small donation by claiming to be heading up a grassroots campaign for something they're interested in. Or maybe you can talk some megachurch into sponsoring or adopting you if you're in a disadvantaged area. For the most part, however, churchgoers will contribute money to make their own churches bigger but aren't interested in building churches for people who have already been converted to Christianity. Move your church to Pakistan and they might consider!\n\nBest of luck.
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Are you sure that your family views it as a burden?  Being homeless is not a good prospect, and I'm sure they wouldn't want that for you.  You would be placing a burden on them by making them worry that you might be killed or raped in the shelter.  If my son were grown and in dire straits (for whatever reason), I would want him to feel that he could always come home.  Talk to your parents about how you feel.  You're an adult, and that's what adults do.
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Keep your ass in Pakistan. Go to Mexico. That Country is getting emptier by the day.
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May I suggest your local Rape Crisis Center or Battered Women's Shelter in your local area.  What a blessing that would be.  Also, if you have a homeless shelter in your area, buy everyone good hats and gloves.  Jingle blessings!
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sorry to hear that I will keep you and your family in my prayers she needs to go to a shelter to get assistance they cant turn her or the kids away and she has to start over and she also has to learn from her consequences there she will be assigned with a counselor/social worker who will help your daughter with the children she probably would get better assistance from the shelter than through a tv show
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try H.U.D or the housing authority or habitat for huminity
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Food and clean water would be the first thing I would have to secure. I would go round supermarkets, shops, people's houses, to find tinned food, bottled water, things that will keep for a while. Fresh fruit and veg could be used while they're fresh. Vitamins would be useful otherwise I could get some kind of deficiency, like scurvy.\n\nShelter and fire would be next. I would find a place to stay, not on the ground floor. That's in case there are animals around that could hurt me. I would make sure the door is secure. There's a high chance I'm not the only person still around. If I survived, others could have too.\n\nThere will be plenty of matches and lighters around, as well as flammable materials. Furniture, etc, can be used to make a fire. \n\nRain can  be used to wash in, etc. Toilets - use a bucket. I'm the only person around, nothing to get embarrassed about!\n\nAfter sorting out my basic needs, I would go to a high place, like the top of an office block. There I would build a big bonfire. If there are any other survivors like me in the immediate area, they will see the fire and come to investigate. There is a chance they will be unfriendly but you deal with that hurdle when you come to it.\n\nIt would be hard to live in a world without people but you would cope. If there are animals around, perhaps an animal, like a dog, could be befriended and give some companionship. That would make life a bit more bearable. \n\nWhen I get more established, a vegetable garden could be made. That will give fresh food. It is possible to live without meat if you don't feel up to killing something, but if you're desperate enough, you will do it. Fire can be used to cook with.\n\nElectricity can be lived without. I would not have the knowledge to maintain a power station. It would just be like going back in time before we had such luxuries as running water and electricity. They coped for hundreds of years without it, we can do the same. Evenutally, the same discoveries would be made as they once were and society will slowly build itself back up.\n\nThat is, providing I am not the only person left in the entire world. In which case, I would live my life the best I could alone, then die in solitude, ending the human race once and for all because I would not be able to have children to continue the species.