Shelter project management programs. ISiB GmbH collaborates with clients to facilitate and implement difficult or complex projects with rapid, responsive, and hands-on resources delivered to support innovation developments and initiatives. Kevin has an extraordinary ability to utilize his contacts in an effort to obtain funding for humanitarian habitat projects.
SIGEM/D&D-FRB school project in Iraq. On January 12, 2010 the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti left people in immediate need of the essentials for survival – food, water, medicine and shelter. Within hours of the disaster, TSA members had received requests for tents via various NGOs and eventually requests for complete turn-key camps required for reconstruction projects in Haiti. One of our members from the LinkedIn group, Worldwide Shelters, committed over 8,000 of their relief shelters to meet the demands of Haiti’s shelter crisis. Within 72 hours of the disaster, families in Haiti were sleeping in a Worldwide Shelters’ tent. Additionally, they have dedicated personnel to be in-country as implementation of the plan for required shelter continues to support Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) (MSF), Save The Children USA, International Organization of Migration (IOM), Medair, International Rescue Committee (IRC), FINCA, Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), World Vision International, Habitat for Humanity and CHF International.
“Social media avenues have created a new wave of global networking.” Worldwide Shelters focuses on emergency and transitional shelter, which has enabled them to provide crucial aid quickly, and save lives. Phone calls from an NGO looking to purchase 900 tents, were immediately forwarded to those companies that could deliver. A cry for help was received from a school owner searching for shelter and school project funding within the Port au Prince region. As this small, independent group was searching for financial support, they also needed help to find reasonable shelter structures that could keep a family safe through hurricane season and rebuild schools. In this case, contacts and detailed information were provided regarding suppliers that could manage the project and provide the structures within the budget required. To support this project financially, the TSA ‘magic maker’ Kevin Weir was asked to assist. Kevin is a founding TSA member and the owner of ISiB GmbH. He assists non-profit organizations in their efforts to fund shelter and habitat projects as part of the ISiB CSR program. Kevin’s company provides innovation and technology certified in Six Sigma and is a trainer of Stage Gate
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In other areas of the world, there is an ongoing need for reconstruction and habitat rehabilitation of medical facilities and schools. TSA founding member, SIGEM/D&D-Fast response Building has been providing new schools in conjunction with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (‘USACE’) for children in Iraq. Children have gone from studying in a dark bunker style school to a superior building offering classrooms with decent illumination. At the end of April 2010, D&D-FRB will have a new prototype for shelter that provides flexibility, temperature balance, and longevity. They are working on a special insulation that will be combined with an aesthetically sound unit that will make for an “attractive, cost effective, small mountain house”, as described by Sabri Dogar, of SIGEM/D&D-FRB. The Shelter Alliance supports the MDGs. Members are working together to overcome disaster relief shelter demands and long term habitat issues. The ongoing need for more permanent and transitional shelters, schools and medical facilities are crucial to acheiving goals concerning education, poverty, hunger, and healthcare. The TSA welcomes any company, aid organization, or government to join our team. To make the difference in the habitat provided to those more unfortunate in the world, we need diversity and experience that only a wide-ranging TSA membership will provide.
About the Author Tracy Badcock is a founding member of TSA, a developing, new non-profit organization dedicated to finding innovative answers to the worlds growing need for revolutionary habitation solutions. The TSA is a portal for the exchange of ideas, R&D, rapid concept-to-solution development, financing, and project management for government or non-government agencies, foundations and other non-profits seeking unique habitation concepts for emergency aid and development programs.
About the Organization The Shelter Alliance supports the 2015 MDGs with ‘like minded’ members working together to overcome the disaster relief shelter demands and long term habitat issues. Additionally, the ongoing necessity for more permanent and transitional shelters, schools, and medical facilities navigate the MDGs progress concerning education, poverty, hunger, and healthcare. The TSA welcomes any company, aid organization, or government to join our team. To make the difference in the habitat provided to those more unfortunate in the world, we need diversity and experience that only a wide-ranging TSA membership will provide.
Enquiries Tracy A. Badcock Founding Member and President The Shelter Alliance Organization Email: info@theshelteralliance.org tb@overseasleasegroup.com Web: www.shelteralliance.org
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