Winchester, Virginia – SHELTER2HOME, INC is pleased to announce that its subsidiary SHELTER2HOME-HAITI, SA (S2H-HAITI) has begun construction of their demonstration home for the Build Back Better Communities (BBBC) Exemplar Housing Exposition at Z’Oranje, Haiti (a Port-au-Prince suburb).

The Exposition, which is being managed by the Haitian Ministry of Tourism, is hosting projects with a variety of building techniques including everything from traditional concealed masonry and low technology homes built from tires packed with dirt, to various high tech foam and mesh technologies and tube steel structures of all different shapes and sizes. SHELTER2HOME’s Building Process is a highly anticipated building technique on the Exposition site as it offers homes that are highly earthquake, hurricane, flood, fire and termite resistant while being environmentally friendly since it uses recycled materials in its component manufacturing.

S2H-HAITI is exhibiting a modified version of our TYPE 3 Progressive Housing Model, which includes the Utility Group – see Permanent Housing Transition. Regular updates on the progress of the Exposition will be posted on our blog.

S2H-HAITI is committed to the philosophy that their role in Haiti is to provide a hand-up, not a hand-out, and ultimately contribute to the sustainability of the country by addressing the triple bottom line; the measure of economic, ecological, and social success. It is for this reason that they are locating their first manufacturing facility in Haiti, and are helping to contribute to the local economy through the training and employment of Haitian youth.

S2H-HAITI offers a variety of building technology: Emergency/Transitional Shelters, Progressive Housing solutions, and building components that can be used to create low-cost to luxury housing, medical clinics, schools, warehouses and buildings up to four stories. S2H-HAITI is currently building fifty (50) houses for displaced families near Les Cayes, two schools in Gressier and Dufort and an orphanage for forty-five children near Peguy-Ville. Homes for orphaned children were recently completed in Meyotte and Torbeck, Haiti – housing more than seventy-five children. S2H-HAITI is under contract to build a two-story Medical Facility in Cavaillon and currently developing a 500 home housing project for the working middle class on twenty-five acres of land near Route #9 and National #1. One, two and three bedroom homes will be offered with water, sewer and electric.

Sincerely,
Donald Stevens
President