5- Habitat for Humanity
-
Upload
interaction -
Category
Documents
-
view
220 -
download
0
Transcript of 5- Habitat for Humanity
-
8/9/2019 5- Habitat for Humanity
1/5
PROGRESSIN HAITI
Rbui Haiti
Rbati Ayiti
SIx-moNTH RepoRT
-
8/9/2019 5- Habitat for Humanity
2/5
REl NeedSix months after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake destroyed
neary 190,000 homes and eft more than 1.5 miion
survivors in need of sheter, the need in Haiti is great and
undeniabe. Haitian hearts sti mourn for famiy, friends,
homes and jobs ost on Jan. 12.
The scae of ceanup and rubbe remova remains
daunting. Dispaced famiies crowd into urban tent cities,
survive in their own makeshift sheters, or seek refuge
in other parts of the country. nd now the summer rainy
season has begun, highighting amost daiy the urgent
need for safe, heathy sheter.
REl fAmIlIeSt the same time, ife goes on. The resiience of Haitis
peope is evident everywhere. Businesses reopen in front
of coapsed buidings. Famiies work to cear rubbe where
their homes once stood, and worship on Sunday inside
churches sti missing front doors.
Many famiies are partnering with Habitat for Humanity
to provide safe, heathy housing for themseves and their
chidren. Pease meet:
RoseFloReChaRlesandheRthReeChildRen, who now
ive in a Habitat transitiona sheter. This is not just a
transitiona sheter for me, Chares says. It is a home.
(See next page)
GRandmotheRanolisesimon,who can continue to ook
after her ock of reatives in a new Habitat core house.(See page 5)
elyCmdilien,who received construction training from
Habitat so he can hep rebuid his hometown. (See page 6)
Just six months after the earthquake, Habitat is:
Constructing about 70 transitiona sheters a
weekin paces ike Cabaret, beowproviding
safe, dry housing for Haitians iving in unheathy,
vunerabe conditions.
Working through Habitat Resource Centers to train
and empoy oca workers in buiding efforts
and suppying famiies with courses in disaster
mitigation and nancia iteracy.
Providing more than 21,000 emergency sheter
kits, conducting structura damage assessments in
affected houses, repairing homes, and advocating
for and-tenure poicies to protect famiies property
rights as they rebuid.
Read on to earn about the strength of Haitis
famiiesand how you can hep Habitat hep Haiti.
RElpRogReSSOver the next ve years, Habitat
aims to serve 50,000 earthquake-
affected famiies, heping Haitians
move toward safer, more secure,
permanent paces to ca home.
THe CHARleS fAmIlY:
Thirstin r a husRose Fore Chares and her three young chidren spent
12, 2010, at the logne home of Chares mother. The
were not in their sma apartment across town at 4:53 p
when the buiding coapsed during the earthquake, ki
three of their neighbors. In that minute, neary 90 perc
of logne was destroyed.
For 16 straight nights, Chares and her chidren se
outside. Chares soon created a makeshift sheter near
her mothers damaged home. Made mosty of bedshee
with meta gates propped together to provide a faade
strength, the structure has ony a green coat-hanger w
hod a scrap door tight.
In Haitis rainy seasonwhich brings even more ma
carrying mosquitoesChares chidren suffered. Seep
in the od sheter, the rain aways got in, Chares says.
have to go to the heath center and ask for hep when th
fevers get very bad.
s she speaks, a ight rain eaves beads of water on
shouders and on her 2-year-od daughter, Guaina Deva
soon the Chares famiy wi have a new pace to take ref
a Habitat transitiona sheter.
I am thirsting for this house , Chares says, smiing
she watches the wood-frame sheter being buit.
Chares famiy received one of the rst 25 Habitat
transitiona sheters buit in this community within log
about 18 mies west of Port-au-Prince and very near the
epicenter of the January earthquake. By training and
empoying Haitians in communities hit hardest by the
earthquake, Habitat is now constructing about 70 transiti
sheters a week. Famiies hep, too; Chares heped cear
ground for her sheter and hammered in nais.
This is not just a transitio
shelter for me. It is a hom
T: Atr th arthquak, th Chars aiy
iv in an unhathy akshit structur.
Btt: Tay, th Chars aiy i vs in a
nw Habitat transitina shtr.
REl NeedSix months after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake destroyed
neary 190,000 homes and eft more than 1.5 miion
survivors in need of sheter, the need in Haiti is great and
undeniabe. Haitian hearts sti mourn for famiy, friends,
homes and jobs ost on Jan. 12.
The scae of ceanup and rubbe remova remains
daunting. Dispaced famiies crowd into urban tent cities,
survive in their own makeshift sheters, or seek refuge
in other parts of the country. nd now the summer rainy
season has begun, highighting amost daiy the urgent
need for safe, heathy sheter.
REl fAmIlIeSt the same time, ife goes on. The resiience of Haitis
peope is evident everywhere. Businesses reopen in front
of coapsed buidings. Famiies work to cear rubbe where
their homes once stood, and worship on Sunday inside
churches sti missing front doors.
Many famiies are partnering with Habitat for Humanity
to provide safe, heathy housing for themseves and their
chidren. Pease meet:
RoseFloReChaRlesandheRthReeChildRen, who now
ive in a Habitat transitiona sheter. This is not just a
transitiona sheter for me, Chares says. It is a home.
(See next page)
GRandmotheRanolisesimon,who can continue to ook
after her ock of reatives in a new Habitat core house.(See page 5)
elyCmdilien,who received construction training from
Habitat so he can hep rebuid his hometown. (See page 6)
Just six months after the earthquake, Habitat is:
Constructing about 70 transitiona sheters a
weekin paces ike Cabaret, beowproviding
safe, dry housing for Haitians iving in unheathy,
vunerabe conditions.
Working through Habitat Resource Centers to train
and empoy oca workers in buiding efforts
and suppying famiies with courses in disaster
mitigation and nancia iteracy.
Providing more than 21,000 emergency sheter
kits, conducting structura damage assessments in
affected houses, repairing homes, and advocating
for and-tenure poicies to protect famiies property
rights as they rebuid.
Read on to earn about the strength of Haitis
famiiesand how you can hep Habitat hep Haiti.
RElpRogReSSOver the next ve years, Habitat
aims to serve 50,000 earthquake-
affected famiies, heping Haitians
move toward safer, more secure,
permanent paces to ca home.
THe CHARleS fAmIlY:
Thirstin r a husRose Fore Chares and her three young chidren spent
12, 2010, at the logne home of Chares mother. The
were not in their sma apartment across town at 4:53 p
when the buiding coapsed during the earthquake, ki
three of their neighbors. In that minute, neary 90 perc
of logne was destroyed.
For 16 straight nights, Chares and her chidren se
outside. Chares soon created a makeshift sheter near
her mothers damaged home. Made mosty of bedshee
with meta gates propped together to provide a faade
strength, the structure has ony a green coat-hanger w
hod a scrap door tight.
In Haitis rainy seasonwhich brings even more ma
carrying mosquitoesChares chidren suffered. Seep
in the od sheter, the rain aways got in, Chares says.
have to go to the heath center and ask for hep when th
fevers get very bad.
s she speaks, a ight rain eaves beads of water on
shouders and on her 2-year-od daughter, Guaina Deva
soon the Chares famiy wi have a new pace to take ref
a Habitat transitiona sheter.
I am thirsting for this house , Chares says, smiing
she watches the wood-frame sheter being buit.
Chares famiy received one of the rst 25 Habitat
transitiona sheters buit in this community within log
about 18 mies west of Port-au-Prince and very near the
epicenter of the January earthquake. By training and
empoying Haitians in communities hit hardest by the
earthquake, Habitat is now constructing about 70 transiti
sheters a week. Famiies hep, too; Chares heped cear
ground for her sheter and hammered in nais.
This is not just a transitio
shelter for me. It is a hom
T: Atr th arthquak, th Chars aiy
iv in an unhathy akshit structur.
Btt: Tay, th Chars aiy i vs in a
nw Habitat transitina shtr.
-
8/9/2019 5- Habitat for Humanity
3/5
THe JoSepH fAmIlY: Rturn t ivinToday, Sainte Hen Josephs famiy fees a security they
hadnt fet in the past six months. Their new Habitat
transitiona sheter stands among a row of six buit in
Cabarets Bercy community, just north of Port-au-Prince.
feeing of renewa has formed among famiies who ost
everything in the earthquake. Joseph and her husband are
farming once again, growing pantains and eggpants as
they save to rebuid a permanent home.
From her new Habitat sheter, Joseph, 28, can see the
makeshift structure that she, her husband and their four
chidrenincuding Derince, at eftcaed home for four
months. Used coth, bedsheets and bags formed was
that came nowhere near the ground, eaving the famiy
vunerabe to many types of intruders.
THe BlANC fAmIlY: Sa at hVotaire Banc had traveed to Gonaves, further north in
Haiti, to be with a brother undergoing surgery on Jan. 12.
motorcyce-taxi driver, he had no idea of the severity of the
earthquake unti he rode back down to Cabaret.
I was just so surprised, he says. Everything was in
the streets, and dust and bocks everywhere. I got home,
and my house was destroyed. But my famiy was safe.
Thank God that theyre OK.
Votaire and his wife, Mdiia, now ive in a new
transitiona sheter buit by Habitat. Mdiia, who has the
same shy smie as her 4-year-od son, Johney, stays home
and watches after their two chidren and a niece.
Votaire comes home at east once each day to check on
his famiy.
We really needed this. To me,
compared to what we were
living in, this is a house. Our old
shelterthat wasnt living.
I love seeing my childrenplaying again, he says.
Habitat works in many ways to improve the ong-term
iving conditions of Haitian famiies in need.
erncy shtr kits
Habitat assembed more than 21,000 emergency sheter
kits for partner aid groups in H aiti. These partners
distribute the kits to famiies that have received itte
sheter assistance since the quake.
The kits incude toossuch as hammers, piers,
chises, work goves, rope and tarpsusefu for creating
emergency sheter, ceaning up debris and repairing
damaged houses.
Myrine Byron, 30, worked at a T-shirt factory in Port-
au-Prince before the earthquake. She is unempoyed now,
but her husband works as a handicraft artist. They hope
to repair their home in Carrefour, and recenty received a
Habitat emergency sheter kit.
I cant te you how hard it was to dea with our daiy
needs, Byron said. Receiving this kit tes me that hope
reay never die s.
Hus assssnts
Habitat has aso been entrusted with doing structura
damage assessments in affected houses. Habitat engineers
have competed 2,000 assessmentsadvising famiies
whether their home is ivabe, needs repairs or shoud
be demoished. Thanks to a UN-Human Settements
in reatives in need and
chidren without parents. That
is why she is thankfu to partner
with Habitat to buid a core
house for the many peope who
wi ive with her.
Without Habitat, she says,
my famiy woud be spread out,
not abe to be together. That is
what I am most happy about.
PTHWS TO peRmANeNCe
Programme grant, Habitat pans to assess 15,000 hous
by the end of 2010 in areas hit hard by the earthquake
au-Prince, logne, Cabaret and Jacme.
Scur tnur: A unatin r husin
Habitats utimate, ong-term goa is to create permane
homes in partnership with famiies in need. That can o
happen as ceanup efforts progress and and and prop
rights can be estabished.
The problem:ccording to U.N. estimates, ess tha
5 percent of Haitis and is egay registered. To move
from transitiona sheters to buiding permanent home
estabishing secure tenure for partner famiies is essen
Without secure tenure, famiies coud be evicted from
new homes and have no ega recourse.
The solution:Secure tenure is a key issue that Habi
advocates for wordwide. By working cosey with
feow aid organizations, aong with the U.S. and Haitia
governments, Habitat wi hep estabish systems that
ensure and and property rights.
The future:Where ceanup aows and famiies have
security of tenure, Habitat wi buid permanent housing
In rura Ti Pace, for exampe, just outside Cabaret, Habit
is aready buiding core houses with famiies. Core hous
are sma, permanent homes buit with earthquake-resis
features. Buit to accommodate famiies of ve, these co
homes can add new rooms over time.
With Haitis rainy season hereand hundreds of thousands
of Haitians sti homeessHabitats urgent, primary focus
is providing safe transitiona sheters to famiies eft most
vunerabe by the January earthquake.
Transitina shtrs with a utur
Wood- or stee-frame structures with diagona
crossbeams, meta strapping and concrete post
foundations provide stabiity.
Habitat transitiona sheters are either recycabe
made with materias that can be reused in a permanent
HOW HBITT ReSpoNdS: Famiies are provided with access to a detached,ventiated atrine.
When possibe, transitiona sheters are buit on th
foundation of a famiys former house. If thats not
possibe, crushed rock and sand are used to create
oor inside the sheter.
homeor can be upgraded to become permanent
houses over time. Habitat wi hep famiies upgrade.
gavanized tin roof and durabe tarp was protect
famiies from the rain.
Three windows are provided in each sheter, aowing
breezes to ow through.
In two years, noise Simon, 54, has suffered the destruction
of two homes in Ti Pace by two natura disasters.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike brought ooding aong the Ti
Pace River. During the ood, Simon cung to a mango tree
with one hand whie hoding a grandchid in her other arm.
More than 70 peope died, but her famiy survived.
Simon taks easiy about the ood, but shakes her head
and exhaes sowy when asked about the earthquake: It
was a poweress feeing. With a ood I can run away, or at
east see it coming, but with an earthquake, I cant outrun it.
Simon is a mother to many in her community, taking
THe SImoN fAmIlY: Survivrs tthr
-
8/9/2019 5- Habitat for Humanity
4/5
GETTING TO oRThe earthquake that struck Haiti not ony destroyed homes
and ives; it aso eft survivors without the means to rebuid
and without jobs to make a iving. Haitis unempoyment
rate is above 60 percent.
Thats why Habitats work in Haiti incudes training and
empoying Haitians whose iveihoods have been affected
by the earthquake.
Hwrk
Eyc Mdiien, 26, is one of more than 100 oca workers
who have been trained to buid Habitats transitiona
sheters in Cabaret. It is important, he says, that young men
are equipped to contribute to their communitys renewa.
For us, Habitat is aso giving us something to do,
Mdiien says, taking a break from buiding a transitiona
sheter during an afternoon thunderstorm. We pride
ourseves on being abe to hep rebuid. Peope forget, but
young men are victims here, too. We are out of schoo and
dont have anything to do. It is hard to nd jobs. There isneed here for homes and for work. We can hep.
Become a partner withHabitat and help rebuild Haiti:
habitat.org/haiti
Whether in Haitis decimated capita of Port-au-Prince,
or in cities and towns where famiies have ed seeking
a new beginning, Habitat is committed to buiding
better futures for at east 50,000 Haitian famiies over
the next ve years. To reach that bod goa, Habitat
reies, as aways, on the caring hearts of donors to
support its ministry. Over the past decade, contributions
have enabed Habitat to serve 60,000 famiies affected
by disaster around the wordincuding famiies
previousy affected by hurricanes in Haiti.
HElP ReBIldHITI
THe loRmeRA fAmIlY:
In sarch acSabine lormera, 23, ights up when she remember
husband. He was a very affectionate man, she say
He aways gave me a ot of support, in whatever I
He was a ver y good man.
Her husband, lesey Dejean, was a bus driver;
they met when she was a passenger on his route.
Jan. 12, Dejean had parked his bus outside a pubi
utiity company, waiting to pick up passengers hea
home, when the e arthquake struck. The buiding
coapsed on top of his bus.
Four days after osing her husbandand herhouselormera eft her Port-au-Prince neighborho
for Gonaves, a three-hour drive to the north. She
movedby buswith her sister, niece and grandfa
Her grandfather has since died, adding to her grief
now ives with seven other peope in a sma house
rented by a cousin.
lormera hopes to rebuid her ife in Gonaves a
is one of more than 500 internay dispaced peope
who have appied to partner with Habitat in Gonav
I dont think I ca n go back there, she says of Port-
Prince. Its too sad.
In Haiti, Habitats work on the ground is coordinated
through Habitat Resource Centers, which deveop sheter
programs to t oca needsand train and empoy oca
workers to impement those programs.
Habitat Resource Centers are aready in pace in
logne, Cabaret, Gonaves and Cap-Hatien, with
additiona centers panned for Carrefour, Croix-des-
Bouquets and Jacme.
HABITAT ReSoRCe CeNTeRS: hat thy
Train and empoy Haitians, heping Habitat buid
capacity and provide oca empoyment opportunities.
Provide partner famiies with technica construction
assistance, disaster-mitigation training and nancia
HOW HBITT ReSpoNdS: iteracy education. ssembe materias needed to create transitiona
sheters, and buid or repair permanent housing.
Partner with oca businesses to create new,
disaster-resistant materias needed for buiding,
such as ighter, more exibe micro-concrete that
puts ess stress on support beams and was.
Ray t bui
Forma construction training courses suppy graduates
with new skis to acquire better, we-paying construction
jobs. The courses aso provide trained and trusted workers
for Habitat projects.
In Gonaves and Cap-Hatien, Habitat is in the midst
of a three-year pan to graduate at east 540 construction
students from its work force deveopment program, a joint
project with USIDs KT program and CHF Internationa.
These graduates wi be vita to Habitats efforts to create
housing soutions for earthquake-affected famiies
throughout the country.
Wiy Rne, 36, is the sautatorian of a recent Cap-
Hatien cass of 65 masonry graduates. Graduation ed
him with optimis m. Who knows what is in my futu re now,
Rene says. I am ready to go. Im ready to buid.
His 12-year-od daughter, Ruth, was with him for the
ceremony: This is my rst time wearing a cap and gown, he
says. I fee proud to be wearing thi s in front of my daughter.
http://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haiti -
8/9/2019 5- Habitat for Humanity
5/5
INTERNTIONl HEDURTERS: 121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US
229-924-6935 800-HBITT fax: 229-928-8811 [email protected] habitat.org
Habitat for Humanitys success in Haiti depends on you. Pray
for our staff and partner famiies. Donate to our ongoing
work there. Te your friends and famiy to get invoved.
For compete information on how you can get
invovedincuding donations, advocacy efforts, 2011
vounteer opportunities, and the atest updates on Habitats
work in Haitivisit habitat.org/haiti.
ou can donate:
online:habitat.org/haiti.
phone: 1-229-924-6935 (to-free in the US: 1-800-422-4828)
mail: Habitat for Humanity Internationa
121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US
Cellphone:Text HBITT to 25383 to make a $10 donation.
Help HABITAT HElP HITIAbut Habitat r Huanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprot, ecumenica Christian
housing ministry founded on the conviction that every man,
woman and chid deserves a safe, decent and affordabe
pace to ive. Since our founding in 1976, Habitat has been
bessed to provide simpe, decent and affordabe sheter for
more than 1.75 miion peope.
Habitat has been at work in Haiti for more than 26 years.
Habitat is a member of the Haiti Sheter Custer and works
cosey with its partners, the United Nations, and the U.S. and
Haitian governments on sheter issues. Habitat Haitis nationa
director, Caude Jeudy, is a voting member on the Interim Haiti
Reconstruction Commission, which was formed by the Haitian
government to oversee the countrys rebuiding process.
PHOTOS B ER MIllSTEIN
INTERNTIONl HEDURTERS: 121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US
229-924-6935 800-HBITT fax: 229-928-8811 [email protected] habitat.org
Habitat for Humanitys success in Haiti depends on you. Pray
for our staff and partner famiies. Donate to our ongoing
work there. Te your friends and famiy to get invoved.
For compete information on how you can get
invovedincuding donations, advocacy efforts, 2011
vounteer opportunities, and the atest updates on Habitats
work in Haitivisit habitat.org/haiti.
ou can donate:
online:habitat.org/haiti.
phone: 1-229-924-6935 (to-free in the US: 1-800-422-4828)
mail: Habitat for Humanity Internationa
121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US
Cellphone:Text HBITT to 25383 to make a $10 donation.
Help HABITAT HElP HITIAbut Habitat r Huanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprot, ecumenica Christian
housing ministry founded on the conviction that every man,
woman and chid deserves a safe, decent and affordabe
pace to ive. Since our founding in 1976, Habitat has been
bessed to provide simpe, decent and affordabe sheter for
more than 1.75 miion peope.
Habitat has been at work in Haiti for more than 26 years.
Habitat is a member of the Haiti Sheter Custer and works
cosey with its partners, the United Nations, and the U.S. and
Haitian governments on sheter issues. Habitat Haitis nationa
director, Caude Jeudy, is a voting member on the Interim Haiti
Reconstruction Commission, which was formed by the Haitian
government to oversee the countrys rebuiding process.
PHOTOS B ER MIllSTEIN
http://www.habitat.org/http://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/http://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/http://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/haitihttp://www.habitat.org/