Shelters - On the occasions that you could not find appropriate shelter for the night, it was necessary to erect something to keep the weather off. Nothing is worse than waking up in the middle of a rainstorm with no protection... Tents are nice, but if you don't have one, you can improvise with plastic tarps (like the ones that cover lumber and other building supplies).
If you find a suitable spot, you can use discarded clotheslines for guy lines and for stakes and poles, just used whatever sticks were available. Even large cardboard boxes or pallets with a tarp or plastic sheet over them (weighted down with rocks/bricks) will do in a pinch.
Cordage - Clothesline, appliance cords, twine, old shoelaces, etc. The stuff is all over the place and if you can tie it in a knot, you can use it. It's also cheap enough that you can buy plenty with a little loose change.
Bed Roll - You just need to have a blanket. You can joined things together with big wads of thread on the corners and along the edges. However, always remember that the blanket will get dirty. So, you have to cut the threads out to wash it and then sew it back together again.
Water Containers - 1-liter pop bottles. Simple.
Cooking Kit - You will pots, pans, silverware, cups, etc. You can settled for a small aluminum pot w/ lid, spoon, steak knife and 1 plastic cup. You could probably do just as well for N5,000.
Stove - For a "fire pot" (whenever open fires weren't a good idea) You could use whatever large tin cans or paint cans were available. There are at my least hundred different ways to make stoves from cans. You can use firewoods or get sawdust, a coal pot to make fire for cooking.
WARNING- If you use one inside a building, make sure you set the stove on some bricks or something else COMPLETELY non-flammable, and that you have LOTS OF VENTILATION (for you, not the fire).
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