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Children's Disaster Services, www.childrensdisasterservices.org, does something similar when we go to Red Cross or FEMA shelters or service centers at disaster sites, to provide child care services for victims of disasters. We carry to the site a large suitcase, a "kit of comfort", which has all the necessities for a child care center, for us to set up in a room or an area in the shelter of service center. We use the locally available recycled cot boxes, chairs and tables to screen of the center, and the kit provides basic toys, games, books, puzzles, play do, puppets, sand toys, cars, dolls, etc. for the children.
If this all-volunteer enterprise interests you, you can sign up for a 27-hour training, including a night on a Red Cross cot and a "final exam" consisting of setting up a child care center in 30 minutes as part of a team. We really need volunteers, especially people who understand children and are willing to take off 2 weeks on occasion to make a major difference in some families' lives.