A shelter is a place where people are given help and shelter for different reasons. The word shelter is synonymous with giving asylum, of giving shelter, for example: “the Pérez family gave me shelter in their house” . There are temporary shelters, which provide help to people in need, people living on the streets, people who have lost their home due to a natural disaster, etc. in this place, they give them a roof to sleep on, and they supply them with food or medicine.
The temporary shelters can be of several types: community shelters, which are places where people come and stay is transiently, these places are conditioned for people during the time they are there have the basic services such as water and electricity. There are emergency camps, this type of camps because they are light, are easily mobile and where people can be temporarily, for example tents, tents.
There are the fixed shelters, which are buildings equipped with the basic services necessary so that people can be there temporarily. Generally, these types of buildings are part of public organizations dependent on the government and private organizations in order to adapt them as shelters when required. There are also the minors' shelters that serve to house those young people who have gone down the path of crime and who are transferred to these shelters in order to serve their punishment, there they are provided in addition to food and shelter, they are gives him psychological help, talks are given, since many of these young people come from dysfunctional families and need the help of specialiststhat motivate them to change their behavior.
There are the orphan children's shelters, in these shelters all minors are accommodated, from babies to adolescents under 18 years of age, there they are cared for until they are incorporated into the families that request it.
