Christmas miracle: German flood victims receive tiny houses

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BERLIN: For Franziska Hilberath, whose home in western Germany\u0027s Ahr valley was destroyed by flash floods this summer, it was a Christmas miracle to be able to move into a donation-financed \u0022tiny house\u0022 this month just in time for the holidays. Hilberath and her partner have been sleeping at the homes of f

BERLIN: For Franziska Hilberath, whose home in western Germany's Ahr valley was destroyed by flash floods this summer, it was a Christmas miracle to be able to move into a donation-financed"tiny house" this month just in time for the holidays.

But they did not expect to get one until February at the earliest. So it was with glee that they received a phone call last week saying they could move in already. But citizens' initiatives have also raised millions of euros - some of which are now going to fund the construction of tiny houses as frigid temperatures set in and many flood-hit buildings remain without heating or electricity.

 

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Nice this type of houses should be build everywhere in the world for poor and disaster affected . It's cheap and its made fully of wood.

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