I am having sleep less nights, writing the final report for a Transitional Shelter Project, which ended on 31 December, 2006. This project involves providing temporary accommodation to the people till their houses were built.
After more than 6 months of Tsunami, during June 2005, the NGOs slowly started realising that it is going to take much more time than they thought to complete permanent houses. There were more than 50,000 people who are still living in tents during that time.
So, IFRC has come up with a huge program of providing individual housing kits which can be assembled with in a day. These kits have steel frames and wooden walls, which can be installed at any place. Once the installation is finish, they look very beautiful.
IFRC had its own challenges in procuring steel frames and timber for the kits. As on date, they were able to supply more than 20,000 kits to various agencies and successfully install them. As of now, the supply is still ongoing, since some permenant houses will take more than an year to finish.
We have installed 2733 shelter kits in Aceh main land and Simuelue island. Since the project is finished, we have to cull out all the data, organise, report and archive it for the auditors !!
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