By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Leyte. Thank you very much for your very generous support to our Typhoon Yolanda home-building initiative. As of this report, there are still thousands of survivors who are living in tents and temporary bunk-houses. The tents provided by international aid NGO’s are very difficult habitation, there is no privacy whatsoever, it is so hot during dry months and so soggy during rainy season. Meanwhile the bunk-houses are very small and family members are packed like sardines, there is also no privacy and males and females are mixed together. This is a horrendous privacy problems especially for Filipinos whose family is extended.
Our home-building approach is novel in that we use the coconut timber destroyed during the typhoon as main posts, rafters and house frames and then we utilize bamboo mats as walls, doors and windows. Bamboo mats are very Filipino, tough and resilient and making the bamboo mats employ a lot of local artisans as well as it utilizes local materials in an economic manner. Best of all our construction is cheap yet robust, elegant and artistic and people feel at home and love the bamboo houses.
Praying that you will continue to support this novel initiative.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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