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Refugees Donate Time and Money to Help Italian Earthquake Victims

Refugees and asylum seekers in Italy have given up some or all of their daily allowances in order to aid the relief efforts in the aftermath of an earthquake in three small mountain communities that killed nearly 250 people.
The 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck on August 24 in the wee hours of the morning, devastating several homes and ending hundreds of lives 85 miles east of the capital of Rome. [1]

Ark Two Shelter, World’s Largest Privately Funded Bunker is Under Attack

Some of you may remember my article, “Ark II Underground Bunker: largest Private Doomsday Shelter on Earth” from Jun 13, 2014, featuring the 10,000 sq/ft underground bunker built by Bruce Beach out of 43 buried school buses in Canada. Without any political or religious funding, it is the largest privately constructed fallout shelter in the world! It appears…

100,000 British children will be homeless this Christmas

The report by homelessness charity Shelter found the number of children who will be homeless on Christmas morning has risen by more than 15,000 on last year. This is equivalent to four youngsters in every UK school.
It also found the number of children living in temporary accommodation is at the highest level since 2008, and is predicted to hit 105,251 by the end of 2015.

Architect Uses Cardboard to Build Usable Bridges, Pavilions, and Emergency Housing

At first glance, you would never imagine that Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban’s bridge over the Gardon River in Southern France was made of cardboard tubes. Its design is simple, though elegant, and the bridge can soundly hold twelve people at one time. This isn’t Ban’s only claim to fame, though. The architect also takes the homeless man’s cardboard box to a new level with his emergency housing design.