18 Febrero 2010, 9:35 PM
By: Green Container International Aid - Team
HAITI AND PAKISTAN ARE IN URGENT NEED OF A CLEAR PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND LONG-TERM PLANNING.
The recent catastrophe provides the opportunity to offer desperately-needed solutions to develop master-planning, as opposed to providing sporadic aid. In the cities affected by the January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and the Floods of August 2010 in Paskistan, everything that do not comply with international standards needs to be demolished and rebuilt.
If Haiti and Pakistan does not receive this help, it risks becoming an entirely failed states. Haitians and Pakistanis need a complete rebuilding of their entire infrastructure, they need a security framework, and they need financial and business structures to be developed in a collaborative way with them so that they are able to regain their basic rights as human beings.
The most serious immediate concern is two-fold: to proactively plan for heavy risks of flooding once the rainy season starts, while also anticipating upcoming hurricanes. The larger issue in reconstruction efforts is also to analyze the type of construction method most appropriate to disaster relief, speediness of operation as well as seismic code and Flooding compliance to minimize future risks. Green Container International Aid (GCIA) designed a series of viable and cost-effective solutions, in close consultation with the local population.
We request that the international community and governments mobilize themselves to provide a MASSIVE DONATION OF SHIPPING CONTAINERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD for Haiti. Our team of experts collaborating closely with the local population in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic (which will be used as a logistical base support) will re-design and recondition these containers in a new urban grid to help the decentralization of the main cities. This strategy will alleviate the non-functional spontaneous settlements that impede any future cohesive development. The living conditions in these spontaneous settlements are simply unacceptable and can no longer be tolerated.
Affordable decent housing accommodation is a basic necessity and accordingly should be perceived as a basic “right” for every man, woman and child. Indeed, the mission of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) is to “promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements and development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all”. The key words are “achievement of adequate shelter for all”.
UN-HABITAT is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities, with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
Pilot Projects for this program are currently underway in Jacmel, Haiti; which lies along the Caribbean Sea, in the Southern part of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Villages will be identified where such pilot projects will be implemented.
Versatile sustainable solutions ranging from rural to urban-compatible settings also include green roofs, solar arrays, storm-water run-off management, reducing water consumption and bio-climatic technology solutions to make these projects zero-energy.
We need to provide these shelters, Haiti and Pakistan could not wait!!!
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