Haiti Manifesto

HAITI IS IN URGENT NEED OF A CLEAR PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND LONG-TERM PLANNING. 

The recent catastrophe provides the opportunity to offer desperately-needed solutions to developmaster-planning, as opposed to providing sporadic aid. In the cities affected by the January 12th earthquake, everything needs to be demolished and rebuilt to comply with international safety standards.If Haiti does not receive this help, it risks becoming an entirely failed state. Haitians need a complete rebuilding of their entire infrastructure, they need a security framework, and they need financial andbusiness structures to be developed in a collaborative way with them so that they are able to regain their basic rights as human beings.
 
The most serious immediate concern is two-fold: toproactively plan for heavy risks of flooding once the rainy season starts, while also anticipating upcoming hurricanes. The larger issue in reconstruction efforts is also to analyze the type of constructionmethod most appropriate to disaster relief, speediness of operation as well as seismic code compliance to minimize future risks. Green Container International Aid (GCIA) designed a series of viableand cost-effective solutions, in close consultation with the local population.

We request that the international community and governments mobilize themselves to provide a MASSIVE DONATION OFSHIPPING CONTAINERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD for Haiti. Our team of experts collaborating closely with the local population in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic (which will be used as alogistical base support) will re-design and recondition these containers in a new urban grid to help the decentralization of the main cities. This strategy will alleviate the non-functional spontaneoussettlements that impede any future cohesive development. The living conditions in these spontaneous settlements are simply unacceptable and can no longer be tolerated.
 
Affordable decent housing...