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Emergency
Relief Buildings, Grain Stores, Famine Relief, Grain Storage Warehouses,
Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation
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Ethiopian Grain Stores |
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the famous BBC report on the famine, the Ethiopian Relief
Commissioner struggled in vain to get food aid. One of his
problems was that previous aid was spoiled because of lack of
storage. Without International help, he scraped up enough dollars
in March 1984 to buy British Steel Grain Stores
from REIDsteel. Transported via Djibouti (on a railway line on which
REIDsteel built all the stations in 1937), the twenty buildings
(each 30m by 70m) arrived pick-a-stick fashion at the site. A crew
of several thousand
Ethiopians (most of whom were picking up rocks from surrounding
hills to form the elevated floors) put together these REIDsteel
sheds in amazingly quick time: 5 months
from order to completion! The first doors were fitted on
the day of the first delivery of Western aid.
Some Photos:
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Completion of all 20 buildings by
November 1984 - A fantastic achievement |
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Final Building is clad |
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The first grain arrives |
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Sacked grain from EEC and Canada |
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3,000 tons of
food per day is trucked in from Assab and re-distributed in
small trucks |
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Happy people collecting their
grain |
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Grain collection |
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Grain collection |
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Grain collection |
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Emergency
Relief Buildings, Grain Stores, Famine Relief, Warehouses, Relief and
Rehabilitation emergency relief, famine relief, aid buildings, sheds,
REIDsteel, construction, design
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