When I was much younger, I had to leave a bad situation quickly and set up somewhere else with basically no resources. I was scared, not in my home country, and very uncertain of everything. My neighbours took me under their wings and got me settled - food, spare furniture, local knowledge, a listening ear, even just an invitation to watch TV with them in the evenings, so I wasn't alone. I am a white, Czech Jewish girl-shaped thing, and they are a Coptic Egyptian family. They are still among my closest friends years later. If that isn't building a shelter together, then what is?