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Haiti Relief Project Update – March 19, 2010

With the generous support of Pacific Domes and hundreds of other donors, World Shelters was able to ship 7,000 square feet of shelter to Haiti last month to meet the expressed needs of Doctors without Borders (Medicins san Frontieres- MSF) and Hopital Adventiste / ACTS World Relief.
All relief agencies working in support of Haiti [...]

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Donate to World Shelters when you shop at the North Coast Co-op

Donating to World Shelters just got easier! Now when you shop at the North Coast Co-op (in Arcata or Eureka) you can donate to World Shelters at the register.
As of April 1st, donation options include:
Adding 1% to your grocery bill as a donation to World Shelters
“Rounding up” to the nearest dollar and donating that [...]

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World Shelters Reaches Final Stage of $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

World Shelters has reached the final stage of competition in the renowned Buckminster Fuller Challenge. World Shelters’ entry “Sheltering U.S. Persons Unsheltered: Creating Legally Conforming, Economically Sustainable Emergency and Transitional Shelter” is one of 30 entries (out of 215) to advance to the final stage of competition for the $100,000 prize.
The competition honors Buckminster Fuller’s [...]

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Haiti Relief Project Update - February 18, 2010

World Shelters, with the generous support of Pacific Domes and our other donors, has shipments under way to Haiti for over 7000 sq ft of structures to meet the expressed needs of both Doctors Without Borders, (Medicins Sans Frontieres, MSF) and Hopital Adventiste / ACTS World Relief. The World Shelters team in Haiti, Jason [...]

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World Shelters works with ACTS World Relief and SDA Hospital to shelter patients in need following the January earthquake

World Shelters is sending approximately 3,500 square feet of shelter for medical facilities to Haiti this month.
The generosity of World Shelters’ donors and Ashland, OR-based Pacific Domes has allowed World Shelters to contribute two “U-Dome” shelters and two Pacific Domes 44’ diameter shelters, with a combined value of over $70,000.
These shelters will provide over [...]

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Haiti: Relief, Rebuilding and Recovery

The devastation from the January 12 earthquake in Haiti is horrific. Loss of life and survivors’ injuries are at an unprecedented scale for this region. The extent of building collapse and damage will soon become clearer but is extremely widespread. A significant percentage of homes and commercial/municipal buildings will need to be [...]

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Lee Schneider discusses persons unsheltered in Huffington Post

DocuCinema Founder Lee Schneider (who is producing the SHELTER movie) discussed the increasing problem of persons unsheltered in California as well as World Shelters’ solution to this problem in the Dec. 11 Huffington Post article Running the Numbers: Homelessness in America
Schneider discussed the Ventura County Star’s report from earlier this year that addressed the [...]

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World Shelters featured on Huffington Post, Stone Soup

On October 8, World Shelters was featured on The Huffington Post, where DocuCinema’s Lee Schneider blogged about the SHELTER movie he is producing, which features World Shelter’s River Haven project in Ventura. He begins:

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Volunteers construct platforms at Arcata Night Shelter site

Over a dozen volunteers came together on the weekend of October 10-11 to lay gravel and construct shelter platforms at the Arcata Night Shelter site, located just north of Arcata. The U-Domes will be assembled by more volunteers on October 24, which is national “Make a Difference Day” (If you would like to volunteer, call [...]

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Renowned filmmakers feature World Shelters in documentary

Two talented filmmakers are teaming up to make a documentary about shelters and – you’ve guessed it! They have selected World Shelters as one of their subjects. The SHELTER movie is being co-produced by Lee Schneider (of DocuCinema) and Richard Neill (of Adventure Pictures), extraordinary documentary filmmakers who have won numerous awards and whose work [...]

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