You Can Make a Difference...

Sue posted the following on the Container Housing Blog, and I think it is important enough to pass on to the larger community. For those of you not familiar with the original blog, a number of us worked together to get the ideas out there to the people actually involved in the Haiti relief effort, and it seems like the efforts have borne fruit:

From Sue:

Just dropping in to drop this off:

Shipping Container Cities to Shelter 2 Million Haitians From Hurricanes

Moreta and his team, Green Container International Aid, have been working non-stop to begin construction on their Container Cities. A pilot project has already begun in Jacmel, which lies along the Caribbean Sea, in the Southern part of Port-Au-Prince. They will start building emergency shelters as soon as they start receiving shipping containers, which can be quickly retrofitted into durable structures that can withstand the hurricane season. These basic structures will include new exterior paint, plywood floors, a Green Roof (geo-textile fabric, gravel layers, humus, vegetation), fabric covers over the top to protect them from the sun and collect rain water, a screen panel at the entry doors of the containers to provide for mosquito protection, and a

Thank you, Sue, and well done to all those who contributed...