Transitional Shelters

Whether it is the need for an easy to set up house for displaced persons, or a small lightweight room doubling as a medical clinic. Advocate Habitation is engineering and developing multi-purpose plastic transitional shelters that can be set-up with minimal effort, through specially designed interlocking components. Simple packaging gives tailored to international specification gives them a highly effective advantage in the initial response to a natural disaster. The shelters re-useable lightweight plastic sheets also provide material for a future roof during semi-permanent settlement phases of community development.

Transitional Shelter Guidelines

In our effort to produce a widely used versatile Transitional Shelter; Advocate Habitation, Inc. has taken into consideration Transitional Shelter Guidelines set forth in a December 2008 Draft put forth by a consortium under the umbrella of The Shelter Centre www.sheltercentre.org in our development and engineering.

The Shelter Standards Consortium is for donor governments and humanitarian organizations to collaborate in the development of standards and indicators for emergency family transitional shelter, for use in both conflicts and natural disasters.1

Organizations such as: CARE International, Oxfam GB, UNHCR, Save the Children Fund, IFRC, UN/OCHA, USAID/ODFA have expressed interest in adopting these universal standards.

Advocate has also gained valuable council, research and insight into the need of transitional shelters from the Faith-based community within organizations such as: Samaritan’s Purse, Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations (AERDO), and Engineering Ministries International (EMI.)

1 The Shelter Centre, pg. 7