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REBUILD Globally Workshop Construction
We recently started working with one of our partners, REBUILD Globally, to help expand their workshop space. This new workshop will allow for the hiring of up to 40 more Haitians and the expansion of REBUILD Globally’s environmentally friendly economic development programme.
Project Status:
Complete
Goals:
- Increase REBUILD Globally’s capacity to hire up to 40 additional Haitian employees
- Facilitate increased access to these positions
- Increase REBUILD Globally’s ability to have a positive impact on the community
Outcomes:
- Recycled Shipping Containers that will form basis of workshop placed
- Roof over work space constructed
- Walkways between work spaces completed
- Work spaces painted
- Concrete floor for workshop space poured
- Roof water-proofed
- Furniture built and provided for staff
Full Description:
REBUILD Globally and EDV have worked together since the summer of 2010, when we used our community connections to help REBUILD Globally find their first three employees. Since then, EDV and REBUILD have worked together to arrange special events for orphanages and ensure that vulnerable kids at orphanages have shoes.
This project is the next major step in our partnership. EDV is leading the construction of a new, expanded workshop for REBUILD Globally. This expanded workshop will be comprised of recycled shipping containers and existing structures on land donated by the Caribbean Lodge Hotel.
REBUILD Globally focuses on environmentally friendly economic development. In Haiti, they employ Haitians who make sandals out of recycled tires. Employment is key to sustainable recovery in Haiti because for many Haitians, the earthquake’s effects have gone well beyond just destroying buildings. The disaster also robbed many of their livelihoods, leaving them without means to rebuild their lives.
We are honoured to help REBUILD expand their operations by using volunteer labour to construct their new workshop.
Support this project:
The next stage of workshop construction will require more funding than either EDV or REBUILD Globally has at the moment! Please donate to help us complete this workshop so that REBUILD Globally can provide essential employment for those who need it most.
