I just wanted to take a moment to CELEBRATE the families we’ve been able to come alongside… since the hurricane & subsequent flooding! 🙂
In October we began purchasing all the available construction materials we could find – so we could repair homes. We finished what we could – BUT – the venders ran out of supplies. The roads were cut and their supply trucks were unable to come and replenish.
So construction had to stop mid-November and didn’t resume until late December. We rented a dozen homes for those families who needed immediate shelter. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of safe homes for rent – as many of them were also effected by the storms.
BUT since December– we’ve been chipping away on several projects.
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On November 9th we wrote a blog outlining our first set of construction repairs: https://molehaiti.org/2016/11/09/home-repairs-update-1/
Here are the finished projects started in November:
Zone 4 – #5 – Vye Katye
Number of people in home – 7 people – – – 6 children , 1 adult
Home had several walls cave-in and missing tin from roof.
WORK: We are rebuilding their walls & fixing their roof.
Before:
COMPLETED
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Zone 10 – #5 – Tamaren
Number of people in the home – 10 – – – 5 children, 5 adults
Home lost portions of their walls & part of roof are rotting.
WORK: Rebuilding walls & replacing tin.
Before:
COMPLETED:
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Zone 9 – #6 – Site de Pe
Number of people in the home – 8 – – – 5 children, 3 adults
Home was completely destroyed – just a pile of rocks.
WORK: Building house from the ground-up.
Before:
COMPLETED
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Zone 4 – #4 – Vye Katye –
Number of people in the home: 8 – – – 4 children, 4 adults
Home lost the roofing & walls are wobbly.
WORK: We will replace the roof & reinforce the walls. We will plaster/connect roofing to the walls.
Before:
COMPLETED
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Zone 9 – #4 – Site de Pe –
Number of people in the home – 5 – – – 3 children, 2 adults
Home lost walls & tin is rotting.
WORK: We will rebuild the walls & replace the rotting tin/wood.
Before:
This is so disheartening… we started fixing her home the 2nd week of November. Because of the rain – it was hard to get a good “after picture”. Staff had to work quickly in-between bouts of pouring rain just to get the home completed.
We thought we would have plenty of time to get the after pic… but none of us were expecting the intense November 16th Flooding… which did WAY MORE damage to the Mole than the Hurricane.
This flooding washed out the foundation under this home – and many others for that matter. The government told us that we cannot rebuild on that property… and the family doesn’t want to leave it.
After November Flooding:
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NEW PROJECTS
Zone 16 – #2 – Rout Janrebel
Number of people in the home: 8 – – – 5 children, 3 adults
Home lost tin & 2 walls
Work: Rebuilding the walls, replacing the tin, will add a small porch.
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Zone 5 – #1 – Bonrepo
Number of people in the home: 6 – – – 3 children, 3 adults
Home was completely destroyed.
Work: Rebuilding from ground up.
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Zone 5 – #3 – Bonrepo
Number of people in the home: 3 – – – 1 child, 2 adults
Lost major wall that’s entire length of house, needs tin
Work: Rebuilding wall & replacing rotted tin.
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Zone 12 – #1 -Site LiMye
Number of people in the home: 11 – – -7 children, 4 adults
This house was completely destroyed in the hurricane.
Work: Rebuild home
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Zone 17 – #1 Gwo Sab
Number of people in the home: 4 – – -2 children, 2 adults
This house lost walls and majority of roof.
Work: Rebuild walls & replace tin
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Zone 10 – #6 – Tamaren
Number of people in Home: 10 – – – 7 children, 3 adults
Hurricane destroyed entire home.
Work: Rebuild from ground up
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JUST STARTED…
Zone 3- #1 Karenaj
Number of people in Home: 9 – – – 5 children, 4 adults
Hurricane destroyed entire home.
Work: Rebuild walls & replace tin
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Zone 3- #6 Karenaj
Number of people in Home: 4 – – – 3 children, 1 adult
Lost part of roof – lost parts of walls.
Work: Rebuild walls & replace roof
