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 Hervin, Program Manager and Armand Mullin, Project Engineer, will assemble these structures after the delivery to the respective sites, expected the first week of March. These medical providers in Haiti have been treating hundreds of patients a day. Our shelters will expand the space available for pre-op and post-op medical care.

The WS team will also be taking materials to demonstrate design options for emergency (6-months) and transitional (3-5 years) family shelters adapted to the context in Haiti and to meet parameters defined by the Emergency Shelter Cluster and the government of Haiti. World Shelters has received requests to partner with several agencies towards substantial shelter projects that may utilize these designs. World Shelters and our extensive network of volunteers is prepared to begin work on family shelter projects in Haiti as soon as the funding agency confirms shelter project scope. The most significant current constraint is the land for these new transitional settlements, some of which will undoubtedly become permanent.