Houses are mainly one-story structures with two or three rooms and sometimes a kitchen and a toilet. A basic house is normally about 28 square meters (about 800 sqft) and takes about 3-4 weeks to build. They are built on cement pillars. Walls are bamboo, brick, stone, wood, or concrete, with a cement and mud plaster. Roofs are corrugated tin.
Note: new technology that will produce a corrugated bamboo/resin roof is in the "works" as soon as the factory is built through the Canadian Architects' Legacy Fund. This endeavor will also provide an agricultural income for those who grow and harvest bamboo.
Habitat for Humanity International-Nepal exists to assist and facilitate appropriate cost-effective technology in order to make housing affordable to the poor. They strives to assist families through architectural technology is more community-driven, economically friendly, durable and drastically risk-reduced in the face of natural disasters.
As such, we help in designing house construction for affordable shelter for the poor while training skilled laborers and the community on such technology.
We help and assist micro finance/village banks in introducing shelter related initiatives to their members by training their construction committees and the members of the banks.
We help in disaster response in training and in assembling temporary shelter that is quick to assembly by using experienced Habitat disaster relief knowledge and expertise, such as that used in Pakistan and Thailand.
We use bamboo technology because it is user and environmentally friendly, durable, healthy in different climatic conditions, less risky in the face of disaster and helps rural community as an income generation activity in growing and harvesting bamboo to be used as construction material.
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