Training humanitarian workers in permaculture food and water security, emergency house construction (super adobe) and reporting human rights abuses. Design for Humanity is an international non-profit charity that is founded on the optimistic project outcome and the principles and ethics of permaculture.
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9. Current Facts
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11 Slums around Monterrey, Mexico
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Caused by CEMEX (Latin Americas) largest construction
company & US AID.
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Techo is the only aid organisation with volunteers on the
ground.
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Monthly family income of less then $40.00 USD a month
(below U.N definition of poverty)
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No legal Tenure. Residents prone to eviction.
PDC 2002, lived and worked with Grandpa for 12 years.
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Paul Pholeros Health Habitat, Red cross report human rights violations.
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One of 10 slums in Monterrey, Mexico where residents are forced to live. Existing on the edge of the city with no access to services. Trauma from the cartel violence and fear from police retaliation cripples these communities from speaking out.
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Lime stone dust causes ear and eye infections in children under 5 years old. Leading to potential blindness and hearing problems developing.
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Connections with community leaders and local NPO is fundamental to the success of Design for Humanity.
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The communities only source of drinking water is a source of illness for the community.
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After receiving a lone for housing upgrade
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Houses are constructed from materials sourced from rubbish dumps.
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Transition centre
6 community gardens there now.
Reduces residents expences.
Increases positive community engagement
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Local source of medicen and nutrition.
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Amazing group of humanitarian volunteers. My heros.
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Growing biodiesel for a business while training aid workers how to build super adobe houses.
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Prone to flooding and disease.
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Permaculture training for humanitarian aid workers of Techo.
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Magdellena and her family all sleep in the one small bedroom.
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A school Magdelena was the principles of for 60 years.
Rehabilitates river
Cut of when it floods
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Magdalenas nursery and bedroom. Shwe
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Local entapenuare gardener with a street side stall.
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Teddy Cruz
Oaxca
San Pedro
Ancient plannung systems
Integrated agriculture into planning system
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Roof top garden
Green roof
Bannana pasionofruit
Connecting neighbours through roof top gardening.
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Teaching in a roof top garden that one of my students built in player del-carmen Mexico. Food has to be grown on the roof because the sewers over flow into the street when it rains.
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Using every available resourses is essential to making the design relevant to the context
Up cycled materials
Flood proof gardens are fundamental for food security in the Caribean
Monsoon.
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The people I work with cannot read or write. So how are they to know of the corruption that creates their situation?
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Two permaculture teachers I trained in Mexico.
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Manifesting new paradigm communities
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Havana Cuba has had no development or American influence for 60 years.
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Latin amerca street gardens
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Ideas of interdisciplinary systems of design evolution propose a way to over come any given problems
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