We used a barrel for a makeshift table.

We used a barrel for a makeshift table.

The makeshift boats carrying the migrants say Freedom not Frontex .

There are makeshift toilets and showers outside the main entrance.

The makeshift dam built by Kyrgyz villages in Kara Bura district.

While many regard the city's makeshift mini malls as odious, not all Muscovites applauded their destruction.

Lari Tamang, 57, prays in the makeshift shelter she lives in with her husband and grandson.

They argued the makeshift shops and restaurants often provided shelter and free meals to those in need.

A mosque in northern Bosnia was destroyed by Serbian artillery and was used as a makeshift morgue.

A giant Godzilla like ape appears to guard a makeshift barricade put up by protesters in Bahrain today.

Disaster Tech Lab is a startup offering WiFi infrastructure building in disaster recovery areas and makeshift refugee camps.

The volunteers were sweeping the floors, volunteers in the makeshift kitchen were cleaning up and packing away the food.

They want to put Mexican Americans to work as makeshift ambassadors for Mexico, representing its interest in the United States.

This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.

Murtaza's makeshift shirt was fashioned for him by Homayoon Ahmadi, his older brother, who posted a photo of him on Facebook.

In troubled times, during the dictatorship of Mussolini, Rita had secretly studied nerve fibers in a makeshift lab hidden in her home.

Eleven kilometers of the canal run through Kyrgyz territory, feeding into other villages in Kyrgyzstan's Kara Bura District downstream of the makeshift dam.

These makeshift mini malls are more and more glaring especially in the center of Moscow where the city has seen the beginnings of hipsterization.

They build a makeshift radio to maintain contact with Dr. Oakes at the hospital, as well as to locate any other broadcasting survivors outside the city.

A Lille court ruled there was no legal basis for expelling the people running the 72 makeshift shops, but said the Calais prefect's concerns were totally understandable.

A French court has rejected a bid by Calais authorities to demolish dozens of makeshift shops and restaurants in the Jungle camp where thousands of refugees are living.

The Israeli attacks damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza, and an estimated 250,000 people took refuge in more than 100 U.N. schools turned into makeshift shelters.

That is the sarcastic headline of a photoblog that narrates how the French police dismantled and evicted a large makeshift camp of migrants in Paris starting June 2.

The lists tacked to the wall of the makeshift office space used by the volunteers show the approximate number of refugees who have arrived daily since September 1.

The so called Slovak Batman writes down the details of every successful action he takes against advertising cluttering his city, like his feats of destroying unlicensed makeshift billboards in Bratislava.

Under such conditions, many of the men and women treating the wounded in makeshift underground hospitals can range from first year medical students to people with no medical training at all.

Back on land, Randy Olson photographed a makeshift fish market in Africa, where the remains of filleted fish were sold to the locals, the main parts having already been sent to Europe.

Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.

The children I spoke to told me of their continued desire to learn in the camp s makeshift schools, crammed into classes and taught in shifts running from before dawn until after dark.

I was born Muslim, but being Muslim was born into my imagination, when I was 4 years old, in a makeshift mosque in the basement of a Presbyterian Church in New York.

As Nepal struggles to recover from the deadly earthquake one year ago, many of those who survived are living in makeshift tin shelters with no financial ability to rebuild real homes anytime soon.

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

Rana's Twitter feed is filled with tales of the journey, from claims of refugees having been beaten by police in Greece to all night bus rides and images of the makeshift camp in downtown Belgrade.

I've seen a lot of hoops over the course of the project but it still amazes me to see these makeshift courts everywhere and anywhere and people of all ages playing sometimes in only flip flops.

The most recent flare up began on July 7, 2013, when over 200 residents of Kara Bura District, Talas region, Kyrgyzstan, blocked the canal Ahmed by building a makeshift stone dam, preventing the flow of water into Kazakhstan.

A group of teenagers behind the Facebook page Rangoon Revealed is organizing a humanitarian visit to the town of Myitkyina in north Myanmar where more than a hundred thousand Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are currently living in makeshift camps.

And recently this nomadic family set down its portable home in a place they never expected to end up a sprawling patchwork of dirt roads, makeshift fences and hundreds of yurts in the country s crowded capital city of Ulaanbaatar.

The world rightly focuses on the tragedy in Darfur, but overlooks another four million Sudanese still displaced as a result of the north south conflict, many of whom continue to live in terrible poverty in Khartoum slums or in makeshift camps across the country, with little opportunity to re build their lives.

On April 6, 2012, thousands of people came to this stunning makeshift memorial stretching along Sarajevo's main street, in order to honor the memory of the victims of the Siege of Sarajevo, which lasted from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996 (some of the photos of the memorial are here, here, and here).