ABSTRACT
On all sides there were small, fragile shelters made of shrubs, bits of cardboard, bits of plastic. It was clear they wouldn't keep out the rain and you could see through many of them…. I felt anger and frustration and a kind of shock at the stark impoverishment of the people. No shelter, no food, no proper clothes, no guarantee even that they would last into next week… I remembered the gesture of humiliation by a woman trying to cover her knees, a person who had probably been comfortable in Somali society two years before.” 1
