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Made in Fukushima

Posted by Agim Meta on December 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

People aiming to help boost commerce in the area hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The Fukko (“Recovery” in Japanese) Department Store launched, an online service offering nationwide a wide range of products — including local handmade items, farm fresh food and seafood, and traditional craft goods — with every product lovingly made with […]

Category Clothing, Food, Most important and featured, Soul & social, Sustainability · Tags

ride4water

Posted by Agim Meta on November 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

800 Million people do not have access to clean drinking water. So they drink dirty water which results in serious health issues. Every 19 Seconds a child dies somewhere on this planet do to a lack of clean drinking water. Now is the time to take action and change this! With my ride4water I want […]

Category Most important and featured, Soul & social · Tags Soul & Social, Water Supply

Philippines Climate Negotiator Makes Emotional Plea At COP19, Vows Hunger Strike

Posted by Agim Meta on November 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

A 2008 study found that in the northwestern Pacific where Haiyan formed, the top 1 percent of the strongest tropical cyclones over the past 30 years are getting on average about 1 mph stronger each year — a phenomenon some scientists suspect is a consequence of global warming. “The strongest storms are getting stronger” said […]

Category Most important and featured, Soul & social · Tags Haiyan

Use person finder from google.org

Posted by Agim Meta on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Category Most important and featured, Soul & social · Tags

No smoke without fire

Posted by Agim Meta on October 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

How can visual signs be used at different moments to either help prevent catastrophes, inform populations of disaster zones or as symbols to remember situations of crisis. From the letters painted on doors during the Peste de Marseille (1720), to the sprayed signs used to mark houses explored for survivors by relief workers in New Orleans after […]

Category Most important and featured, Publicity, Soul & social · Tags Community, Competition, Information Exchange

IKEA FOUNDATION – Designing a better home for refugee children

Posted by Agim Meta on July 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

Having a lot of fun together! © By Elisabeth Rytterager UNICEF

On World Refugee Day, the IKEA Foundation is celebrating its unique partnership with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Refugee Housing Unit—a partnership to design and build a better home for refugee families. Many of the shelters currently used in refugee camps often have a life span of as little as six months before the impact of sun, […]

Category Intermediate shelter, Most important and featured, Permanent shelter, Soul & social · Tags Educational, Healthcare, Intermediate Shelter, Permanent Shelter

Landfill Harmonic

Posted by Agim Meta on December 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Teaser for the upcoming documentary “Landfill Harmonic.” The film introduces the town of Cateura, a slum in Paraguay built atop a landfill where residents have created music from the trash heaped upon them. Scouring the rubbish, the determined music-lovers have built violins, cellos, and other classical instruments, resulting in the “Recycled Orchestra.” The preview of […]

Category Most important and featured, Soul & social, Sustainability · Tags Community, Educational, Recycled, Soul & Social, Sustainability

The Shelter Effect

Posted by Agim Meta on September 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

The Shelter Effect or how a safe home can change everything. Come and share your experiences here: www.facebook.com/TheShelterEffect The numbers are all out there. Over a billion living in slums, millions sleeping in flooded homes, countless shelters devastated by disasters every year. But it’s no longer news — earthquakes and hurricanes don’t kill people. Buildings […]

Category Most important and featured, Soul & social · Tags Community, Settlement and Infrastructure, Soul & Social

New houses for 155 families in Leogane

Posted by Agim Meta on July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

In the city Leogane, Haiti – a place that was still in ruins two years ago – a new hope has emerged. An incredible, 155 families moved into the first permanent houses that have been built within the local development area of “Habitat for Humanity”. All of the families living in the area were left […]

Category Most important and featured, Permanent shelter, Soul & social · Tags Reconstruction, Settlement and Infrastructure, Water Supply

Peace Build in Armenia

Posted by Agim Meta on July 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

From 30 June to 8 July, “Build Peace” took place in Armenia. Volunteers from around the world rebuilt homes that were ravaged by poverty and conflict country houses of poor families, together with “Habitat for Humanity”. The family Babayan’s received a new home: The family of four lived in a dilapidated house. There was no bathroom, the toilet was outside […]

Category Most important and featured, Permanent shelter, Projects of Disaster, Soul & social · Tags Permanent Shelter, Reconstruction, Water Supply

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