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This booklet is a companion to "How to build a safer shelter" designed for village carpenters.
This video made by the IFRC explains how to build / to realize a bamboo shelter. The earthquake-resilient shelters are made out of local materials such as bamboo and rope and cost the equivalent...
This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.
Alternative Shelter solutions explain IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti. Providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to...
This video published by the IFRC on December 2010 shows the Red Cross building transitional shelters in Haiti.
This video published by the IFRC in 2011 explains PASSA, a participatory tool that allows communities to improve their living environment, build safer shelters and design better settlements.