ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY IN HAITI
Three days after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, Architecture for Humanity cofounder Cameron Sinclair learned that colleagues from another aid group had been crushed to death in a collapsed building, according to Bloomberg.
“We lost designers, artists, the sort of people you would tap for the reconstruction process,” Sinclair said in a telephone interview from his headquarters in San Francisco. “Haiti has not just lost people, but skill and expertise that will be hard to bring back.”
Architecture for Humanity works with groups around the world to rebuild communities struck by natural and man-made disasters. Such is the continuing chaos in Haiti that even now, the exact death toll is unknown.
His organization is helping to reconstruct the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. The first task is to build disaster-recovery centers that will serve other relief groups.
Architecture for Humanity is planning to build schools in Haiti in partnership with charitable groups founded by investor Warren Buffett, actor Ben Stiller, singer Shakira, and Amazon chief executive officer Jeff Bezos.
Along with Yele Haiti, a charity founded by musician Wyclef Jean, it also was going to build a youth basketball facility that could double as a disaster center before the earthquake struck.
