Solidarity with Manabí and Esmeraldas

SOLIDARITY WITH MANABÍ AND ESMERALDAS! EMERGENCY HOUSES !

According to Volunteers and institutions that have lived experiences as the natural disaster that struck Ecuador the last Saturday, April 16th, have told that aftershocks will follow a pair of months, the precarious settlements will take one year, the reconstruction will take three years at least and will cost thousands of millions of dollars.!

In response, Corporación Viviendas del Hogar de Cristo started a campaign to alleviate the effects of the earthquake in families’ lives through different actions: assembling emergency houses in the disaster zone, and contributing to SOLIDARITY COLLECTOR.! !

These are our immediate proposals, all depend on the availability of lands that will be assigned by the competent authorities.!

This type of house has tall pillars and allow families con5nue building in the below oor, assembling modules or deďŹ ni5ve walls with materials that resist the 5me.

Due to the magnitude of the earthquake, Hogar de Cristo has designed a kind of blocks to set a community neighborhood, in an area of 120 x 138 m2, where it could be placed 64 families, an average of 5 people each, in plots of 7 x 14 m., leaving places for green and community areas, a day care or a community canteen, or what its inhabitants decide.

Each block could be built gradually, according to a plan, and avoid chaos and urban disorder.

LOCATION OF HOUSES IN BLOCKS AND COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS!

CAMPS!

LOCATION OF HOUSES IN CAMPS !

Each camp has will be placed in an area of 100 x 100 metros, and will have subcamps or cells; each one of them will have: ! !

1.  Eleven (11) houses to accommodate the same number of families. ! !

2.  One (1) community house of 4.90 x 7.50 meters, that can be used as a community canteen, classroom, or meeting room, according to what inhabitants decide.!

3. Two (2) sanitary facilities differentiated by gender ! !

4. An area to collect trash and solid wastes. !