Disaster Relief Shelters: China 中国

Response to the questions

ming — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:27:17 +0000

hello Edward,family, friends,

hope you had a nice holiday season and that the new year will be happy and fulfilling!!!

yesterday i listen to several of the radio shows on this site, hey just listen to the bad budah radio online raw -funny -inspirational worth a try

I think it great, to strip away the add on to make Buddhism from what budah actually thought. have a listen, I came to this conclusion about buddhism back at assumption college

http://www.badbuddhistradio.com/index.html

they come up on your screen as a white page with a black line give it a minute you’ll start hearing it.

Here in China my holiday were pretty simple, Christmas eve i had a nice dinner of turkey and sweet potatoes mash potatoes cranberry sauce ,the manager of a restaurant i go to regularly, custom made it to order for me, then i went home after a long walk and did research on methane plant for a project a rural school in the mountains, they have 45 kids in 10 bunk beds in a small room of pre school age children , they need a dorm building , they are using class rooms as dorm rooms because the need is so great, the children are mostly migrant workers children who go to cities to find work and leave kids at residential school , some 200 of then are state supported the school get about $1.20 per day to feed them, so they get rice mostly. I’d like to build then a 4,500 sq meter building 48,500 sq foot building. that would include a library, kitchen, dinning hall/reading room, that has central heat and a roof top of 1,500 sq meters green house,
a sewage treatment plant that produces methane to heat the new building and retro fit central heat into existing buildings and for cooking, also want to set up chicken coop and pig pen to add more waste to sewage treatment plant for enough methane production for fuel . the by products of methane plant [algea] is good fertilizer and food for pigs and chickens, the gas from burning methane would be pipe to green house to make plant grow faster. i want to build the building with lite steel frame 3 stories, and use a lite weight cement board that is good insulation fireproof moister proof to make it energy efficient. Now they are heating dorm room with coal burning space heaters vented by temporary stove pipe out a open window. The school is private social enterprise founded about 20 years ago by a 20 yrs old woman who is the head master of school. it has grown to 900 children in a really poor village 500 residential students.
She is doing a good job with what available to her. My plan is to raise most of the fund to build this school with moneys from china.

My new years eve , i went to a free concert of all local chengdu bands play a wide variety of types of music, they were pretty good, at midnite they there were fire works as the band played on. After wards with went for a double shot of black label jonny walker on the rocks and some conversation with the manager of my fave restaurant , then walked home to sleep.

Currently, i’m working on designing /organizing , a 100 sq meter [1076 sq ft] building in cooperation with another non profit for a community center on a property of another social enterprise, that is a residential kinder garden school for migrant families children. I’m using lite weight steel from a distant city in china that has a www.FrameCad.com machine that forms the flat steel into steel studs and automatically design the building with soft ware[ with flood plan], shapes it, pre drill and dimples it, cut holes for electrical and plumbing, labels each piece for easy assembly. i’m going to use the lite weight concrete siding, and put in radiant heat in floor with solar hot water panels to heat it. And LED lighting to reduce electric consumption. Every thing here take a lot of time , the FrameCad system is from new zealand so there engineering calculations are not same as chinese calculations, thru contact i’ve developed i found a chinese engineer who know how to translate it to chines calculations he told it would be done by dec 24, but chinese supplier only sent part of info to my engineer because of fear someone would steal the info,but with out it i can not get it approved by building dept.
now it was sent, the engineer said it would be done on jan 14, but my translator grand father died so he went home for funeral and he is the contact to chinese engineer, it may be in his email but back home he has no internet connection, so i wait.

You may have noticed that my plan to help quake victim in the poor mountain area with
homes has changed significantly,to helping social enterprises,who help local poor. The change was circumstantial to the way govt. works here and social conditions. One is the govt. does not understand why a American would come to help chinese, also if one villager get a free home even the most destitute village then all villager would want one free as well and have riots to make there point. That a problem for govt. they like harmony and all people to be happy.no excuses for people to be discontent. The govt. has done a lot to rebuild homes,school, hospitals in quake area. There are still many people who are falling thru cracks and still living under plastic sheeting.

I have not lost my vision for helping poor get adequate housing,by that i mean home with heat so the can remove there winter outer cloth inside there home and and be comfortable, have flush toilets, running water.

This what I’ve been thinking about to reach my goal of providing adequate housing to rural poor here in china and hopefully in a few year expand it to other countries.

To have my charity in usa Disaster Relief Shelter Foundation,Inc which is 501c3 IRS approved, incorporate a for profit corp in china under rules of ‘’social enterprise” which is in nature a not for profit corp. This would be acceptable form of legalization in china.
Purchase a FrameCad system factory in a container $400,000 usd bring it to china, and product steel frame kits for small home 50 /75/100 sq meter kits for homes, include lite weight concrete siding, windows and door, roofing ect. as a kit complete to build a home. Purchase direct from manufactures for lowest prices by buying bulk quantities.
Bring the complete materials together for a complete home kit, with extra could be added like solar hot water heaters ,LED lighting, solar panels, ect. as add on . Also include all tools to erect the kit homes with the kit.

then sell the kits direct to poor villagers there by reducing the cost by not taking a profit.with complete instruction on how to erect the prefab kit.

Similar to the way Sears and Robucks sold kit home in usa in 1908- 1940.

from http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Sears-Kit-Home

If you think houses built from kits are shoddy, cheap and obvious, think again. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold about 70,000 homes in 48 states through their mail-order Modern Homes program, with 370 designs that you might not readily recognize as a kit home. Sears kit homes were shipped via boxcar and came with a 75-page instruction book. Each kit contained 10,000 – 30,000 pieces and the framing members were marked to facilitate construction. Many decades later, those same markings can help identify a home as a Sears kit home. So if you’re wondering if that adorable little bungalow with the big eaves (or even your own house) is a kit home, read on for signs that will help you identify if it is indeed a historically significant Sears kit home.

Main difference would be limited styles of home and sizes only poor would want and at cost or 10-20% to cover over head and make it sustainable, which would be very affordable housing and possibly create a surplus to subsidize home for destitute.

This is my latest crazzy ambition, i feel like Don Quito of Cervantes would you like to be
My Sancho Panza, and help me fund this? i need about $500,000. usd to make it happen.

The Impossible Dream-Man of La Mancha click to listen to my theme song of my life.

roland

DRSF News 最新新闻

ming — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:53 +0000

DRSF现在正在与四川抗震救灾协会（请访问http://sichuan-quake-relief.org）合作绵竹市幼儿园活动中心计划。同时还在与香港关心下一代基金会（请访问http://www.cngf.org.hk）合作进行一个关于给四川省泸州市叙永县摩尼县新苗实验小学500留守儿童建造宿舍，图书馆，餐厅的项目。此外，都江堰一所民办表演艺术和视觉艺术学校，和一所医疗中心，其建筑毁于地震，DRSF也正在试图帮助他们重建家园。

宿舍/图书馆/饭厅/媒体教室/急救医疗中心/艺术学校

如果您有任何疑问，请联系：

罗兰德卡提里尔主席/创立人

电子邮箱 roland@disaster-relief-shelters.org

MSN rolin12@hotmail.com

推特 roland_in_china

网址 http://disaster-relief-shelters.org

刘明项目经理

手机 134 3819 5005

电子邮箱 eric86@yahoo.cn

MSN justinbrainming@hotmail.com

网站http://disaster-relief-shelters.org

DRSF is now drawing up plans for a community center to be built soon in cooperation with Sichuan Quake Relief in Chengdu. We are also working on drawing plans for a dormitory that will house 500 children at a village school in Moni Town in Yuyong county, Luzhou City, Sichuan. Also in process is an art school for performing and visual arts, because their previous facility was destroyed in the quake, and a rural medical center in cooperation with the Caring Next Generation Foundation Association of Hong Kong.

If you have any questions please connect with:

Roland Catellier: founder and director

Cell 139 8004 0974

Email roland at disaster-relief-shelters.org

MSN rolin12 at hotmail.com

TWITTER: roland_in_china

Web http://disaster-relief-shelters.org

Ming Liu: Operations Director, China（中文使用者可联系）

Cell 134 3819 5005

Email eric88 at yahoo.cn

MSN justinbrainming at hotmail.com

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Rain pours new misery on quake-plagued areas in SW China’s Sichuan – People’s Daily Online

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:22:33 +0000

After the lines were cut by heavy-rain-caused mudslides along the upper reaches of Minjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River and a water source for the provincial capital,for more than 24 hours in Chengdu areas, water supply facilities have finally been fixed. Thousands of families in the disaster-hit-province of Sichuan now are able to drink water conveniently.

Sichuan Province, which has been undergoing reconstruction since the devastating earthquake last year, was hit by the downpour lasted from last Tuesday to Friday.

The level of pollution forced three treatment plants in Chengdu that get water from Minjiang River to shut down on Friday afternoon.

It meant supplies were cut to most in the east and west of the city, and only restored around 9 a.m.Sunday, a worker of the Chengdu Waterworks Company, was quoted as saying by Monday’s China Daily.

More than 20 trucks were sent by the firm to collect water from other plants to supply residents.

The upper reaches of Minjiang River are vulnerable to geological disasters, said Fan Xiao, an engineer at Sichuan Geology and Mineral Resource and Exploitation Bureau.

Local authorities are now drawing up new emergency water shortage plans, which will include a measure to take water from Beisha River in Dujiangyan.

Beichuan county, one of the areas worst-hit by the May 12 quake last year, also suffered flooding and mudslides from the storm.

More than 43,600 people from 50 villages were affected, costing the authorities an estimated 100 million yuan (14.6 million U.S. dollars).

Some of the buildings in the zone now regarded as a “Beichuan earthquake relic” and the newly built road to Tangjiashan “quake lake” were also destroyed by the landslides.

Source:Xinhua

Rain pours new misery on areas in SW China – People’s Daily Online.

Farmers in China quake zone struggle for funds to rebuild homes

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:21:08 +0000

BEIJING, June 25 2009

(Xinhua) — Poor farmers in areas of southwest China struck by a massive earthquake in May 2008 face financial problems in rebuilding their homes, an official said here Wednesday.

Zhang Ping, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top economic planning body, said some impoverished people could not get bank loans to rebuild their homes because of their tough economic situation and limited incomes.

Zhang’s remarks came in a report to the ninth session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature.

He reported on reconstruction work after the May 12, magnitude-8.0 earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province, which left more than 87,000 people dead or missing.

The official called for forceful measures to ensure the rebuilding of homes for poverty-stricken households and aid to address their financial problems, material and labor shortages.

The reconstruction of rural houses should be completed by the end of the year so rural residents could spend the new year in “warm new houses,” he said.

Other problems found were slow progress in the reconstruction of urban homes, reduced financing capacity of rural financial institutions for small and medium-sized enterprises and shortages of building materials and technical support for the quake-hit region, according to Zhang.

He urged increased attention to the psychological problems of quake survivors. Despite counseling, government officials and residents still had psychological problems after having lost relatives and property and then facing heavy life and work pressures, he said.

Two government officials in quake-battered Beichuan County of Sichuan Province committed suicide after the disaster. Feng Xiang,33, and Dong Yufei, 40, both hanged themselves after losing family members. And in Mianyang City, a third official, He Zonghua, 40, jumped to his death from a hotel.

According to a survey by Sichuan University, more than 400,000 people in the quake zone are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More than 40,000 of those with PTSD are at risk of suicide, said Zhang Wei, deputy president of the West China Hospital under Sichuan University.

The Sichuan provincial government dispatched medical groups last year to 10 of the worst-hit counties to relieve officials’ mental stress and ensure every official took holidays. The government also spent money to improve the working and living conditions of the officials.

However, experts admitted China lacked mental health professionals and staff trained in handling PTSD.

Zhang from the NDRC said long-term psychological assistance would be targeted at the population suffering from psychological disorders.

The government would send experienced professionals to offer counseling for local people and provide training for medical staff in the quake area for at least half a year, according to the official.

Staff at grassroots medical institutions in the quake zone were also expected to finish a year of study on psychological treatment in other provinces on rotation, he said.

At the NPC meeting, Zhang told legislators that China had invested more than 360 billion yuan (52.7 billion U.S. dollars) in reconstruction projects in the area as of the end of April.

Reconstruction was under way for nearly 2,800 schools and more than 1,500 medical institutions, accounting for more than 75 percent and 60 percent, respectively, of the total.

Nearly 70 percent of students in the quake zone had moved into permanent school buildings and the percentage would rise to 95 by the end of this year, according to the official.

All students in the region would be back in permanent school buildings next March, he said.

Editor: Zhang Ning | Source: Xinhua

中国地震灾区农民为重建家园而努力

北京，2009年6月25日

（新华社）—中国西南部严重受地震影响的不幸农民们，面临着重建家园的财务困难，一位官员在星期三这样说道。
张平，中国发改委主任，国家最高经济规划机构，说一些穷困的…

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Quake victims still waiting for decent roofs

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:15:59 +0000

2009-06-25 09:28By Tan Yingzi (China Daily)

Ever since her house was destroyed in the massive earthquake last year, Wang Xianqiong, who once owned a beauty salon in Beichuan county, Sichuan province, has been staying in a makeshift shelter with her disabled husband and college-going son.

Though the government has promised its share in helping quake victims build or buy new houses, Wang has no idea when she will be able to start her life afresh in a decent flat.

Beichuan, one of the worst hit areas by the 8.0-magnitude quake, started rebuilding its city on a new site in May. The government has said its residents could possibly move into the new city by May next year.

But houses in the city, even though at subsidized rates, are too expensive for Wang to afford.

“I am earning a living for my family running a small hair salon in the temporary settlement area now. We barely manage to make enough to feed ourselves. How can I save money to buy a flat?” the 41 year old questioned.

Despite efforts and massive investments, the Chinese government is still facing several difficulties in its post-quake reconstruction projects, according a State Council report released yesterday.

The poor in urban and rural areas have inadequate access to financial resources to rebuild their homes and there is still a shortage of construction material, the report said.

As part of the country’s 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus package, the central government has poured nearly 155 billion yuan ($22.7 billion), including $1.8 billion from overseas loans, into reconstruction work.

By the end of April, Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces had completed a total of 9,400 projects, mainly in housing, infrastructure, public services, industry and city reconstruction, and kicked off another 21,000 projects.

“The average price for commercial residential housing in Beichuan before the earthquake was about 1,400 yuan per sq m,” Wang said.

The government has promised to give a 32,000-yuan housing subsidy to families of three, plus a 50,000-yuan low-interest loan.

For Wang and others like her, it’s still nowhere close to enough.

“No matter how much the government lowers the prices of the flats, I still have no money to buy one,” Wang said.

Wang’s story is similar to those of hundreds of people in Beichuan county, where most businesses were destroyed, leaving many without means of earning an income.

Wang, her disabled husband and son might have been fortunate enough to survive the disaster, which killed more than 70,000 people, but like most, they have nothing left.

Her life savings were invested in her beauty salon, which, like her house, became a pile of debris.

Zhang Ping, director of the State Development and Reform Commission, told the 9th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature yesterday: “We always give first priority to housing projects in our whole reconstruction plan.”

In rural areas, almost all houses threatening to collapse have been reinforced and 76 percent of newly constructed houses are complete, said Zhang.

“But the urban housing projects are lagging behind due to the complicated ownership issue,” he said.

In cities, only about half of the shaky houses have been reinforced and “8.9 percent of planned new houses have been built”, according to the State Council report. It also pointed out that in addition to the 51 worst hit counties, other quake-hit regions have “not received enough reconstruction funds” to rebuild public service facilities, such as schools and hospitals.

地震灾民仍在等待安置房屋

2009-06-25 09:28谭颖子（中国日报）

四川王先琼曾经在北川县拥有一家美发店，自她的房子在去年的大地震中被毁坏至今，她一直和她残废的丈夫和正在读大学儿子住在临时板房里。

虽然政府许诺帮助灾民建造……

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Nation mourns quake dead

roland — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:50:29 +0000

reconstruction after earthquake, one year aniversary of the 512 earthquake

BEIJING/MIANYANG, April 29 (Xinhua) – An online plea for the public to mourn the 80,000 people dead or missing in last year’s devastating earthquake is being spread rapidly among Internet users, less than two weeks before the first anniversary of the disaster.

“Make sure you plant chrysanthemums in your garden on May 9,” reads the message, posted at kaixin001.com, a Facebook-style social networking website based in Beijing where office workers enjoy buying virtual property ranging from slaves to luxury cars and houses, and planting trees and flowers in their gardens.

“The flower takes 68 hours to bloom, so on May 12, we’ll be mourning those who died in the quake,” it says.

It also advised everyone not to steal others’ chrysanthemums, as most members of the free access website enjoy harvesting and selling others’ plants to make virtual money.

The message, which first appeared at kaixin001.com at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, had been forwarded to 221,810 people and received 611,600 clicks by 3 p.m.

The nation’s memory of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake is still fresh and overshadows the forthcoming three-day Labor Day holiday starting Friday.

Large crowds of reporters, social workers and volunteers have poured into the quake zones in the western provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi, hoping to share local people’s woes and give a helping hand, in one way or another.

GUITAR BAND IN WHEELCHAIRS

Every day at 6:30 p.m., Yan Peng and his eight schoolmates begin their daily guitar course in a makeshift classroom of Changhong Training Center on the suburbs of Sichuan’s Mianyang City, the temporary campus of Beichuan High School that toppled in the quake.

“I’ve always loved the guitar, though I never learned to play before the quake,” said Yan, a quiet, bespectacled 17-year-old.

Yan was among the first to flee the ramshackle school building, but soon returned to save his classmates, and ended up in the ruins himself. He lost his right leg. The school suffered nearly 1,000 dead.

Four months after the quake, the school received a special gift from Beijing-based Capital Normal University: 15 guitars and some volunteer teachers — all music majors of the university who take turns teaching in Mianyang.

“This is the best we could do to help these students,” said Sheng Xue, a junior student whose volunteer service began two weeks ago.

Yan is among the nine most avid learners who have persisted. All of them bear injuries. Some are permanently confined to a wheelchair.

Besides music, Liu Min said she also loved volleyball, though she could only play on wheelchair these days. The 17-year-old recalls with affection a meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao last November, when she led the band to sing “You and Me”, the theme song of the Beijing Olympics.

“I used to be healthy and sportive,” said Liu, who had wanted to be a police officer but now plans to major in law.

NEW HOMES BUILT ON HORSEBACK

Wei Songping and his horse left at daybreak to carry cement for the villagers: a fleet of seven horses was all the 17 families in the mountainous Liangjiashan Village rely on to transport building materials for their new homes.

“It’s not because we don’t have manpower or vehicles,” said Wei. “But no vehicle can make it along the only path down the mountain, which is merely a meter wide.”

Liangjiashan was a mountain-top village separated from the county seat of Wenxian in Gansu Province only by a river. Almost every home was destroyed in the quake and the whole village had to be relocated to a hillside township closer to the county seat.

“I can’t stand overburdening my mule,” said villager Li Zhanlin. “The animals take turns taking a day off every three days.”

In nine months, Li’s mule carried 40,000 bricks, 12 tonnes of cement and 20 cubic meters of sand that have now become his family’s five new houses.

His neighbor Liang Baocheng, however, lags far behind. “I have to finish building the new home by the end of June. My son is about to get married this year.” In rural China, parents traditionally hold themselves liable for building new homes for their adult sons.

“Local authorities held geological surveys and confirmed the new site was safe from quakes,” said Liang, who said the government was doing a “great job”. “They could do better, though, by paving the road. If only the path was two meters wide, we could have moved into new homes earlier.”

In Wenxian, one of the hardest-hit areas in Gansu Province, about 35,000 families are rebuilding homes in the mountains. At least half of them rely only on horses, according to the county government.

“The horses have to toil for as long as the rebuilding may take,” said Liang. “Our homes are built on horseback.”

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Flowers are constantly seen these days in the ruins of Beichuan, the Sichuan county that perished in the quake. The scarlet corn poppies and yellow and white chrysanthemums seem to be mourning for the dead and welcoming a safer new Beichuan.

People in Sichuan, young and old, are taking their time to shake off their nightmarish past.

In Anxian County, Lin Xingcong and his bride are giving finishing touches to their new home. “We’ll plant orchids here,” Lin said as he pointed to the clearing between two houses, “with seeds from my old home.”

Nine-year-old Xiao Daipeng, a primary school pupil in Shifang City, forced a smile as he subconsciously touched the stump of his right leg. “I wish I could score better in science class,” he said when Xinhua reporters asked what was in his dreams.

“In the future? I wish I could find a good job,” said Xiao.

Disaster Relief Shelters: Recent Developments

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:55:13 +0000

Disaster Relief Shelters earned its 501c3 status from the U.S. Government last week. This now allows donations to be listed as tax deductible in accordance with applicable laws for American citizens.

DRS will use PayPal for its donation conduit. In addition to a general appeal for much needed support, DRS asks that you or your organization consider sponsoring a home, dormitory or mutli-family dwelling.

Even after nine months of international aid and assistance there is much to be done. Residents of Sichuan still live in tent cities, share a bathroom with up to 100 other families, lack any viable heat in their homes, have no running water in the current shelters and no cooking facilities…

(Four People per unit share current shelters. DSR plans to build Permanent dwellings for children and families)

(The tents above seen along the river are still serving as dwellings for many of the millions displaced by the earthquake)

Donations may be made using the Chipin connection to the right of this post and inquiries concerning sponsorship of an entire home or dormitory may be made by filling out the form below:

cforms contact form by delicious:days

Disaster Relief Shelters 救灾避难基金会

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:56:27 +0000

12 months later, Sichuan still needs your help.

一年之后，四川仍然需要您的帮助

Though progress is being made there are still between 5-7 million people homeless in Sichuan, China and other earthquake affected areas. Below are photos taken over the past year.
虽然重建工程正在进行，但是仍然有5-7百万中国四川和其他受地震影响地区的人民无家可归。以下为去年的照片。

Disaster relief shelters intends to build as many homes as possible for children and elderly residents affected by the devastation.
救灾避难基金会试图为受灾难影响的儿童和老人建造尽可能多的家园。

Disaster Relief Shelters Foundation a registered charity in the US. In short: After visiting China during the relocation of families during the Three Rivers Gorge Dam project I witnessed elderly people dying early or slipping into deep depression after being displaced from their ancestral homes. Many elderly and young survivors of the quake are still in dire need of running water, toilet facilities, cooling areas and quake-proof homes.
救灾避难基金会试图为受灾难影响的儿童和老人建造尽可能多的家园。

I started this foundation to give those who will not be properly assisted by rebuilding efforts. Our first modest goal on the anniversary of the catastrophe is to raise enough money to build 12 homes.
我创办此基金会，为不能很好被帮助的人们提供重建设施。在汶川地震一周年之际，我们的第一个适当目标是集中足够的资金，建造12个家园。

I value and deeply appreciate your support of this life-saving work.
我很重视和深切感谢您对这一拯救生命工作的支持。

Roland Catellier

Founder, Disaster Relief Shelter Foundation, Inc

赈灾住房基金会创办人

New Port Richey, Florida, USA

美国，福罗里达州，新里奇港

Organizational Goals:

企业目标

Earthquake Relief in the form of housing for those unable to rebuild a home without support or assistance

为需要支持与帮助才能重建家园的地震灾民提供住房