These include window and eave curtains, hammocks, tents or plastic sheeting for use in emergency situations (e.g. refugee camps).

UNHCR provided tents, plastic sheeting, blankets, kitchen sets and other household goods to more than 100,000 people in Sumatra and 160,000 people in Sri Lanka.

At Goz Amer camp, a Chadian customs official and three refugees were killed by gunshot wounds sustained in a confrontation ignited by the seizure of plastic sheeting sold by refugees in the camp market.

The displaced are being sheltered under plastic sheeting provided by UNICEF or in huts made from branches, leaving many of those affected without proper sanitation and with very little clean water, medicine or much needed food.