The Swedish retailer IKEA has pledged to send 5,000 flatpack shelters to southern Turkey and northern Syria. And Qatar is sending 10,000 of the shipping container cabins it used to house fans at the 2022 World Cup. Host Marco Werman has the backstory of these shelters and their new role as emergency housing for earthquake survivors, who now number in the hundreds of thousands.
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