Current Disaster Response and Relief
Fund Shelters and Field Hospitals in Haiti:
(All donations at this time will be allocated to our Haiti initiative)
Current News:
Click the links below for summary information on the World Shelters Field Hospital Trauma Center, JAS “Just Add Sticks”shelters, Gabions (wire cage frames that convert rubble into walls), and TranShel transitional shelters. Funds are currently being raised through World Shelters.
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 rebuilt – “built back better”. Many thousands of Haitian families are now without shelter. Beyond the immediate imperative to rescue and provide medical care, food and water for survivors, assistance to Haiti must further the longer-term goals of rebuilding and recovery.
Though it has been less than one day since the earthquake as we write this, World Shelters and our collaborating partners are actively developing our projects and evaluating needs based on assessments from the field. Your support of World Shelters’ Haitian relief efforts will provide a maximum value in context-appropriate shelter that will help make the transition towards permanent housing “built back better”.
Please click on the link below to see our more extensive write-up.
Haiti: Relief, Rebuilding and Recovery
Disaster Response and Relief
World Shelters offers durable, lightweight, low-cost shelters to meet the requirements of established humanitarian agencies. Our field teams, volunteers, and network of collaborators provide global delivery of temporary and transitional shelters. We support the work of agencies present in areas of need for relief operations as well as for transitional living. As a non-profit agency ourselves, we build relationships with shelter program managers for governments and NGO’s around the world.
Products
World Shelters makes two SPHERE-compliant* shelters:
U-Dome: Hard wall, 200 square feet x 12ft tall dome roof on vertical walls, flame-retardant, weighs 125lbs, ships flat.
Q-Shelter: Quonset tents. Flame-retardant, simple assembly and disassembly. Designs can include locally sourced materials.
*SPHERE is a collaboration of international agencies that sets standards for all emergency response materials. Our shelters are the lowest total cost to point of use SPHERE-compliant transitional shelters.
Financing
We offer bulk financing tailored to your agency’s needs, including a disaster preparedness plan where you can have the shelters at the ready and only pay for them once they have been deployed.
International Development
Adequate shelter is a catalyst for a self-sustaining local economy. Shelter enables families to participate in the wider economy and community rather than just immediate struggle for survival. As costs for shelter decrease, resources are conserved for further recovery and development.
World Shelters’ U-Dome, Q-Shelter and field services serve a pivotal role by providing temporary and transitional shelter in scenarios where current shelter is inadequate. Our shelters can enable the triage phase of relief projects to be as short as possible, to rapidly transition to permanence, recovery, and rebuilding.
For more information, or to request a sample for evaluation:
+1-707-822-6600 phone
+1-707-633-1737 fax
info @ worldshelters.org