Monday 18 May 2015

The real benefit of tents in disaster affected areas

Every year human clashes and natural disaster leave millions of people homeless in the world. It becomes crucial to provide the victims basic survival kits so that they can survive in tough times. Proper care and medical treatment must be provided to see the victims do not contact fatal diseases which will lead to more causality. 
 
Relief Tents

Nobody can predict when a disaster can hit, but when it does, everything is wiped out in just a few second and leave people in miserable condition. Natural disasters like tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, floods have the potential to wipe out everything within few seconds. Moreover, we cannot forget the huge loss of lives. Life becomes crucial to those who are left behind because they will lose almost everything they have.

At such crucial times, it becomes necessary to provide them immediate relief. First thing, is to provide the victims immediate shelter, which is often built with the help of relief tents. The biggest challenges are to provide victims immediate relief in the form of tents, food and medical aid. And to manage the supply of food and medical aid, tents are used to build temporary shelters. Victims are supplied with purified water, clothing, lights, blankets, utensils, food items etc.

Often times it becomes really difficult to provide all the victims relief tents on an individual basis. In such situations, big colonies are built with the cooperation of humanitarian organizations and local relief funds to provide immediate relief. If they are not provided immediate relief supply, they can suffer from disease outbreaks.

Emergency shelters depend on type of disaster. For example, in case of earthquakes, tents and earthquake-proof shelters are used. People are evacuated on an immediate basis to transfer to safe places to prevent further loss. In case of wildfire disasters, shelters are built on the small level because they do not affect large areas.

In case of flood, massive shelter planning is needed because flood affects large areas. Different types of tents are utilized for this purpose and government often calls for mass donations. Tents with an emergency supply of light, food, and medical kits are unusually dropped from air freight planes to affected areas. The reason for airplane usage is that roads and other communications means are completely destroyed by heavy floods.

In most cases, waterproof and UV protected tents are used because it is not possible to predict how long they will be used as shelter.

In war-affected zones, these tents are used to provide shelter for long duration of times that is why durable tents are used.

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