Program — Shelter
Shelter
A roof is the precondition of a future. We support resilient, climate-appropriate housing and the dignity of permanence — rebuilding after disaster, and building ahead of it, with materials and methods communities can sustain themselves.
Approach
Climate-appropriate building
Materials and methods matched to flood, heat, and seismic realities — and to what local builders can source and repair without us.
Ahead of the disaster
We fund resilient construction before the storm, not only relief after it. Building ahead is quieter than rebuilding, and it saves more.
The dignity of permanence
Tenure, title, and a sense of home — shelter that a family can hold, improve, and pass on, rather than camp in.
In the field
Built ahead of the water
On a flood-prone delta, raised foundations and storm-resistant roofing were in place before the season turned. When the water came, the homes — and the families inside them — stayed.
Methods that stay
A masons' cooperative now builds with compressed-earth blocks pressed on site. The skills, the tooling, and the livelihood remain after the program steps back.
Numbers
- 31,000
- durable homes supported
- 18
- post-disaster rebuilds
- 11
- regions