Winchester, Virginia – SHELTER2HOME, LLC is pleased to announce that its subsidiary SHELTER2HOME-HAITI, SA (S2H-HAITI) has completed construction on Luckenbach/Zeigleman Architect House. The Haitian Government hosted the “Build Back Better Communities” (BBBC) Exemplar Housing Exposition at Z’Oranje, Haiti (a Port-au-Prince suburb). The Exposition hosted 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. Luckenbach/Ziegelman’s model featured rigid frame construction. Shelter2Home provided the wall panel system and facilitated construction on-site.

Work is progressing on the Baptist Foyer Divine Ecole in Dufort, Leogane, Haiti. The school was badly damaged in the January 2010 earthquake. For the last year, school has been taught under the shade of tarps. The new compound was funded by Cross International and was designed and is being built by Shelter2Home. The compound consisits of an Administrative Building, two five-Classroom Buildings, a Bathroom Facility and a Multipurpose Facility that houses a Dining Hall with a Kitchen and Storage, as well as two additional Classrooms.

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 also currently building 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 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.

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.

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