Recycling Plastic Bags
Posted by Agim Meta on February 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Somalian refugees in the Ethiopian refugee camp of Keribeyah reuse plastic bags they find on the street to weave table covers, mattresses and pillows. The relief agency ZOA initiated this project by establishing a workshop where a group of 60 women, both refugees and locals, worked six days a week to transform rubbish into handicraft. […]
Category Most important and featured, Projects of Disaster, Soul & social · Tags Recovery, Recycled
Paper Tube Housing by Shigeru Ban
Posted by Agim Meta on February 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban designs intermediate emergency shelters made of paper tubing. He began working with cardboard tubing in cooperation with the UNHCR during the humanitarian crisis of war-torn Rwanda in 1994. Before his work, refugees were provided with aluminum poles and plastic sheeting for shelter construction. But as the aluminum poles gained good prices […]