What is that, you ask? A tent, not immune to the weather, not ventilated, rustled easily by the wind. Recently, I joined the board of directors with a nonprofit organization working in Haiti, Transparency for Haiti (http://transparencyhaiti.co/). We've partnered with Earthship to build Haiti's first ever full-sized Earthship.
Earthship, you ask? Watch this video to see Haiti's demo Earthship. Seriously. Click.The.Link:
http://earthship.com/Caribbean-Haiti/haiti.html
TfH's Earthship will be located in Croix-des-Bouquet, Haiti. Many programs, ranging from healthy programs for at risk youth to a already existing primary school classes (through our partnership with HAC (www.hacus.org), are set to be hosted by the Earthship. It'll look something like this:
Not only will the community of Croix-des-Bouquet have a new community center to convene in. Earthship will teach them how to mimic the building practices of the community center so they can build self-sustaining houses of their own. So, instead of living in this:
They'll have their own little self-sustaining Earthship. They'll have a home immune to rain, ventilated, sturdy. Pretty incredible.
Before we begin building the Earthship, we need to raise 40,000 dollars. It seems like a lot of money. It is a lot of money, for one person or two people or even one hundred people. It's not a lot of money for 40,000 people or 20,000 people or 10,000 people. Help us spread the word, help us help Haiti. Help us help Haiti help themselves.
If you'd like to donate, you can do that here:
http://transparencyhaiti.co/donate (You'll have an opportunity to delegate your donation to The Earthship after you enter your card information).
If you'd like more information, you can read the post below, and then check out this website:
http://transparencyhaiti.co/
Haiti deserves this, I believe we can make it happen.
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