While food is still in great need, people are calling THTP saying how badly they need shelter.
The Haiti Tree Project would like to raise funds for 100 families of two villages to receive enough metal roofing to start rebuilding permanent shelter. With a metal roof, natural material from the local area can be used for walls. You can see in the photos that they are finding wood poles, and next, many will use wood sticks to weave walls and add adobe. They will have a nice home again and it won’t crush people in an earthquake like concrete would. It’s the roof that they need to purchase.
Unfortinately, the environment is too degraded to find the grasses past generations once used for roofing. Interestingly, many asked for tarps at first because that’s what people received in 2010. But they agree the plastic degrades in the sun and adds pollution to the environment and is later burned. Purchasing metal roofing and nails would bring them back to having a secure home and restarting a life much faster.
