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Om Sha La Yoga is hosting a benefit for Japan this Saturday, May 21st, from 7-10 pm. The benefit features Classical Indian Dance Prayer and Sound Healing Meditation for the Waters of the Planet. Admission is by donation only and is on a sliding scale, and all donations will go towards World Shelters’ work to [...]
When World Shelters set out to design a shelter to meet the needs of the people displaced by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, we knew this was going to be a project that was different than anything we’ve done before. Very quickly the 2DK TShel2 became not just a transitional shelter, but a temporary [...]
One of World Shelters’ overarching goals is to get people to rethink the way things have always been done and to see if we and other disaster relief agencies can do better. If we treat transitional shelter as an asset instead of a cost, we can provide families with the first step towards taking control [...]
Art, design, and architecture-based website DesignBoom has some great information and photos up from the U-Dome at the Triennale di Milano’s “Una Casa Per Tutti/A House For All” exhibition in 2008.
This exhibition was a great opportunity for World Shelters to display its U-Dome along with many other new designs for transitional shelter. The feedback we [...]
One of the revolutionary aspects of the private land settlement World Shelters hopes to build in Haiti is the way in which individuals and families can pay for their shelter. WS co-founder Steven Elias has devised a way for inhabitants to pay rent (for a 10-unit settlement, only $4 a day per TShel2 for the [...]
World Shelters, in coordination with the Uber Shelter field team, is working to lease a privately-owned parcel of land in a Haitian neighborhood where we hope to erect 10 TShel2s. The lot is currently covered in trash and rubble, but with the innovative raised design of the TShel2 most of that rubble would not [...]
Today World Shelters submitted a proposal in response to the recent request from Mercy Corps, outlining costs and details to supply 200 TranShels and/or TShel2s for a new agricultural community development program in Haiti. Through explicit statements such as “temporary shelters, such as tents, only provide temporary solutions”, World Shelters Executive Director Bruce LeBel emphasized [...]
The relief situation in Haiti has raised some unique problems, but those problems have led us to develop new, innovative designs. Because of the very limited space available in certain areas in Haiti, World Shelters was asked by USAID to develop a two-story transitional shelter in order to provide adequate housing and make the [...]
Check out Jesse Robbins’ recent speech at the Web 2.0 conference by clicking on the link below. Jesse was our lead organizer of the World Shelters Task Force in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. Jesse says, “For the past few years I have been trying to find ways that technology can be used to “Serve those [...]
On Saturday September 20, World Shelters participated in the national Day of Caring. Sponsored by United Way and other community groups including Americorps, the HSU Service Learning Center and the Volunteer Center of the Redwoods, the Day of Caring is a way for local businesses and organizations to take a day to volunteer at a [...]
