When disaster strikes the second disaster that looms is the efficiency and impact of the three R's - Response, Recovery and Reconstruction -- as seen by the poor response by FEMA after Hurricane Katrina.
If we build homes the same way they have been built before, we are just setting people up for this again. We can force better building codes by building examples of what the future will look like.
The UN has estimated that 4,000 temporary classrooms will be needed in Haiti -- however this is not an earthquake, this is an earthquake with hurricane season coming in four months. Yet less than 3% of humanitarian assistance goes to fund education programs.
