Roger
I fully agree with you. The temporary shelter needs are, in our situation,
addressed through tents, tarpaulin and plastic sheets ($ 5 a piece onwards).
These are used by families as a stop gap arrangement till the time they
rebuild
their houses THEIR WAY (local material, local technology, traditional layout).
They will rebuild irrespective of external aid. So the temporary shelter
provision we are talking of is an arrangement for short term aid.
Interestingly,
they tend to use this material (tarpaulin, plastic sheets) as part of the
roofing material in the houses that they go on to build. Even today you can
see
houses in Andhra Pradesh that are having blue plastic sheets on their roofs
that
were given as relief material (temporary shelter) after the 1996 Kakinada
Cyclone. So, this stuff seems to be good enough for its purpose. What we need
now is to tell the people how to rebuild their houses so that they are able to
resist future cyclones better. And this has to be done real fast, before they
actually rebuild the old way.
Anshu
At 03:43 PM 11/12/99 -0000, you wrote:
>To who it may concern,
>
>The idea of "kwik-kuvr" may be attractive at first but the cost and
>sustainability of the approach may be questioned:
>
>1. After the 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone, the cost of replacement, durable,
>concrete houses was around 30,000 Indian rupees (Gov of AP estimates
>and funding levels) = ($800.00dollars) .
>
>2. The 1996 cyclone also demonstrated that permanent, not temporary shelter,
>was the issue. Within a matter of days famililies had built lean-tos out
>of salvaged leaves, branches and material provided by NGOs. What they
>awaited were more permanent and resilient housing assistance.
>
>All in all, $350.00 dollars for a tent seems not to offer long term, or
>locally appropriate solutions to the tragic situation in Orissa.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>
>Roger Bellers
>BGHRC
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>> Here is the promised infomation on Disaster relief shelters
>>
>> From: jrgorham <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: shelters for disaster victims
>>
>> Hello, Mr. Jain! It's been too long since I have heard from you. Please
>> give me an update on your activities.
>>
>> I believe that I sent you a story from the Canadian Centre for Emergency
>> Preparedness about my presentation at the World Conference on Disaster
>> Management last June. My Kwik-Kuvr Relief Shelter was on display at the
>> conference and generated a lot of interest.
>>
>> My company is now in a position to offer large quantities of the shelter
>> for delivery to any part of the world. For example, we can easily produce
>> 5,000 shelters per month.
>>
>> The recent disastrous cyclone in India, besides causing massive and tragic
>> loss of life, has made perhaps 10,000,000 people homeless--the numbers are
>> mind-boggling!. This is exactly the kind of situation that the Relief
>> Shelter was designed to ameliorate.
>>
>> I can offer the Relief Shelter to disaster relief agencies in India at a
>> price of less than US$400.00 per unit, f.o.b. factory (here in North
>> America). A serviceable tent costs almost this much, but the Relief
>> Shelter offers so many more advantages that you are well aware of from
>> having read my research paper on the subject.
>>
>> Mr. Jain, may I ask you a favor? Would you kindly put me in touch with
>the
>> decision-makers in government and in the charitable organizations who may
>> be interested in buying shelters for the disaster victims?
>>
>> Please understand, also, that you have the opportunity to serve as one of
>> my dealers in India. I can offer the Relief Shelter to you at a unit cost
>> of US$350.00, f.o.b. factory. Of course, we would ship by sea container
>> lots and the financing would have to be up front by Letter of Credit or a
>> comparable financial instrument.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may know of a reputable person or company in your
>> country that could serve as one of my dealers in India (actually, an
>> exclusive dealership for the entire country could be arranged, given the
>> right circumstances). Of course, it would have to be a person or an
>entity
>> that you could personally recommend.
>>
>> Please give these matters some thought and let me have your response at
>> your earliest convenience.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dick Gorham
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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