Hundreds lost their lives l during last week's storm.
Thousands were injured.
In 2010 an earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale nearly destroyed the island. I is said to have taken nearly 220,000 lives. They had not gotten far in their recovery when Hurricane Matthew came, taking an additional 800 plus lives.
As of this writing there are two Navy ships and four Marine units on their way to help with the initial search and rescue which is still ongoing. What next?
Friends have been sending us pictures of the path of destruction left by these disasters and after the initial search and rescue by the hardworking experts. Next is the rebuild.
Right now people there build homes with whatever they can find lying around. Right now, many are sifting through the debris to find shelter and thinking about how to move forward with their lives.
So when WE think about what's next our thought is how to rebuild those houses. The sadness of this situation is that there are so many unwanted opportunities. As they rebuild, how do we help them do so in a safe and eco-friendly way.
Our mission for 2017 is to offer help to those in need in Haiti. How do we empower a nation? How do we help those in need. How do we rebuild a community?We are shifting our goals to building container houses. Four of them to be exact and one will be taken to Haiti along with a group to build and install in May.
There is a reason we learn theses skills...
We are building bee hives and for every three we build here in the U.S, we will be able to send one to Haiti
We are building compost bins and for every one that we build here, We will give one to Haiti.
We can answer these questions and when we look at who we are as people, we can see that we are Tiny House People, with big hearts. We leave in June. We hope that you will share this experience with us.
