One of the biggest obstacles to building transitional shelters in Haiti is the amount of debris that is lying everywhere. Do me favour and look down your street. Now imagine that up to 60 per cent of all the houses just collapsed (the percentage of destroyed houses depends a lot on which part of town you are in in Port-au-Prince). Can you imagine how much rubble this would be? From a shelter perspective the problem is that before you build[...]
Archive for June, 2010
Thoughts about tents and tarps and a collection of photos from an aerial assessment of the major IDP camps in Port-au-Prince in June 2010.
