notes: FROM THE CSO SITE: Address in Haiti: #106, angle Rues Clerveaux et Louverture, Petion-Ville, Haiti Phone Number: 3888-1696 Acronym: WWS Contact Name in Haiti: Veronica Taylor Phone: +1.504.913.4270 Email: veronica.taylor @worldwideshelters.org Contact Name at Headquarters: Ryan Hudock Phone: +(917) 544-8897 Email: ryan.hudock @worldwideshelters.org Web Site: http://www.worldwideshelters.org Areas of Activity : Advocacy & Policy, Economic Development, Housing Year founded : 1st November 2010 Budget Range : Over 500,000 Number of Staff : 11-20 Funded By : Private donations Organization Details: Worldwide Shelters is changing the way the world thinks about sheltering displaced persons. We want to provide displaced persons with not just temporary shelter, but a basis for them to begin rebuilding their lives and communities. We want to raise the fundamental need for shelter to the forefront of humanitarian consciousness. We have made it our duty to address humanitarian crises, and we will continuously work to improve the way such crises are handled.The Worldwide Shelters mission is to provide more people with better shelter faster, reducing the number of families in inadequate shelters that keep them vulnerable to poverty, deficient education, and disease. We are proud to aid the individuals, families, communities and organizations who demonstrate daily the will and determination to overcome tremendous odds. We are driven by three strong values – humanity, integrity, resolve.Declaration of Principles 1. Worldwide Shelters provides shelters that can function in the immediate wake of a disaster, while later becoming the frame of a permanent home2. Worldwide Shelters is focused on helping people rebuild their lives in the wake of war and natural disasters.3. Worldwide Shelters believes shelter is at the forefront of human need, right alongside the need for food, water, and medicine.4. Worldwide Shelters is dedicated to innovative shelter design, ethical sourcing, and implementing responsive processes that speed relief to the people in need.5. Worldwide Shelters believes collaboration is key and happily acts as the glue for partnering relief organizations, helping large groups operate efficiently and implement effectively.6. Worldwide Shelters believes an emergency shelter that can transition into a semi-permanent dwelling is a more sustainable alternative to the traditional relief tent. It also gives beneficiaries a sense of ownership and the opportunity to improve the product in ways we might never imagine.7. Worldwide Shelters will teach beneficiaries how to make shelter themselves, developing cottage industries and leaving behind something greater than a home.8. Everything Worldwide Shelters does is thoughtfully developed – our goals, our products, our processes.Our Three Pursuits • Solutions — Worldwide Shelters provides innovative shelters and implements deployment strategies to deliver better shelter faster, extending our work to all operational components. • Advocacy — Worldwide Shelters strives to raise awareness around humankind's critical need for shelter and to raise funds to eliminate the suffering of displaced people all over the world. • Progress — Worldwide Shelters continuously strives to lead the way in providing better humanitarian shelter solutions — through aggressive R&D initiatives, innovative supply chain management and active collaboration with other relief organizations. -> FROM THE CSO SITE: Address in Haiti: #106, angle Rues Clerveaux et Louverture, Petion-Ville, Haiti Phone Number: 3888-1696 Acronym: WWS Contact Name in Haiti: Veronica Taylor Phone: +1.504.913.4270 Email: veronica.taylor @worldwideshelters.org Contact Name at Headquarters: Ryan Hudock Phone: +(917) 544-8897 Email: ryan.hudock @worldwideshelters.org Web Site: http://www.worldwideshelters.org Areas of Activity : Advocacy & Policy, Economic Development, Housing Year founded : 1st November 2010 Budget Range : Over 500,000 Number of Staff : 11-20 Funded By : Private donations Organization Details: Worldwide Shelters is changing the way the world thinks about sheltering displaced persons. We want to provide displaced persons with not just temporary shelter, but a basis for them to begin rebuilding their lives and communities. We want to raise the fundamental need for shelter to the forefront of humanitarian consciousness. We have made it our duty to address humanitarian crises, and we will continuously work to improve the way such crises are handled.The Worldwide Shelters mission is to provide more people with better shelter faster, reducing the number of families in inadequate shelters that keep them vulnerable to poverty, deficient education, and disease. We are proud to aid the individuals, families, communities and organizations who demonstrate daily the will and determination to overcome tremendous odds. We are driven by three strong values – humanity, integrity, resolve.Declaration of Principles 1. Worldwide Shelters provides shelters that can function in the immediate wake of a disaster, while later becoming the frame of a permanent home2. Worldwide Shelters is focused on helping people rebuild their lives in the wake of war and natural disasters.3. Worldwide Shelters believes shelter is at the forefront of human need, right alongside the need for food, water, and medicine.4. Worldwide Shelters is dedicated to innovative shelter design, ethical sourcing, and implementing responsive processes that speed relief to the people in need.5. Worldwide Shelters believes collaboration is key and happily acts as the glue for partnering relief organizations, helping large groups operate efficiently and implement effectively.6. Worldwide Shelters believes an emergency shelter that can transition into a semi-permanent dwelling is a more sustainable alternative to the traditional relief tent. It also gives beneficiaries a sense of ownership and the opportunity to improve the product in ways we might never imagine.7. Worldwide Shelters will teach beneficiaries how to make shelter themselves, developing cottage industries and leaving behind something greater than a home.8. Everything Worldwide Shelters does is thoughtfully developed – our goals, our products, our processes.Our Three Pursuits • Solutions — Worldwide Shelters provides innovative shelters and implements deployment strategies to deliver better shelter faster, extending our work to all operational components. • Advocacy — Worldwide Shelters strives to raise awareness around humankind's critical need for shelter and to raise funds to eliminate the suffering of displaced people all over the world. • Progress — Worldwide Shelters continuously strives to lead the way in providing better humanitarian shelter solutions — through aggressive R&D initiatives, innovative supply chain management and active collaboration with other relief organizations. ---------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: We are currently working with several organizations active in Haiti. By the time this involvement is concluded, we anticipate having as many as 100,000 Worldwide Shelters units on the ground. To support those initiatives, we will need to have flexible resources with which to adapt shelter designs to meet the specific needs of that environment, conduct training in Haiti for partner agencies, and probably underwrite some costs of the shelters themselves, when working with certain partners.
mission: Vision Worldwide Shelters is changing the way the world thinks about sheltering displaced persons. We want to provide displaced persons with not just temporary shelter, but a basis for them to begin rebuilding their lives and communities. We want to raise the fundamental need for shelter to the forefront of humanitarian consciousness. We have made it our duty to address humanitarian crises, and we will continuously work to improve the way such crises are handled. Mission The Worldwide Shelters mission is to provide more people with better shelter faster, reducing the number of families in inadequate shelters that keep them vulnerable to poverty, deficient education, and disease. We are proud to aid the individuals, families, communities and organizations who demonstrate daily the will and determination to overcome tremendous odds. We are driven by three strong values – humanity, integrity, resolve. There has never been an organization like Worldwide Shelters — a not-for-profit that works in partnership with other leading aid organizations to deliver a holistic approach to rebuilding communities ravaged by war and disaster. Shelter is the third largest spend in humanitarian aid but the most underfunded simply because, compared to food and medicine relief, there are far fewer organizational resources available for the shelter effort. Worldwide Shelters strives to provide high value, thoughtfully developed shelters that not only put a roof over people's heads in the short-term but also help them transition toward a return to permanent housing. Our unique attributes include the following: • Provision of shelters that can function in the immediate wake of a disaster while later becoming the frame of a permanent home • Efficient delivery of relief services in the wake of disasters through collaboration with many international aid agencies and governments • Innovative design of high-quality aid/relief shelters • Procurement and supply chain management services at cost to all qualified relief agencies • Unparalleled quality control oversight -> Vision Worldwide Shelters is changing the way the world thinks about sheltering displaced persons. We want to provide displaced persons with not just temporary shelter, but a basis for them to begin rebuilding their lives and communities. We want to raise the fundamental need for shelter to the forefront of humanitarian consciousness. We have made it our duty to address humanitarian crises, and we will continuously work to improve the way such crises are handled. Mission The Worldwide Shelters mission is to provide more people with better shelter faster, reducing the number of families in inadequate shelters that keep them vulnerable to poverty, deficient education, and disease. We are proud to aid the individuals, families, communities and organizations who demonstrate daily the will and determination to overcome tremendous odds. We are driven by three strong values – humanity, integrity, resolve. There has never been an organization like Worldwide Shelters — a not-for-profit that works in partnership with other leading aid organizations to deliver a holistic approach to rebuilding communities ravaged by war and disaster. Shelter is the third largest spend in humanitarian aid but the most underfunded simply because, compared to food and medicine relief, there are far fewer organizational resources available for the shelter effort. Worldwide Shelters strives to provide high value, thoughtfully developed shelters that not only put a roof over people's heads in the short-term but also help them transition toward a return to permanent housing. Our unique attributes include the following: • Provision of shelters that can function in the immediate wake of a disaster while later becoming the frame of a permanent home • Efficient delivery of relief services in the wake of disasters through collaboration with many international aid agencies and governments • Innovative design of high-quality aid/relief shelters • Procurement and supply chain management services at cost to all qualified relief agencies • Unparalleled quality control oversight