Project Background
Mission and goals
-Establish a vital, self-sustaining resource for Port-au-Prince, including housing for 1,000 people.
-Develop the local skills required to foster microeconomies
-Create a place of learning for 400 Haitian students, including housing for at least 100 boys and 100 girls.
-Tap into or create sustainable resources for food, water, and energy to make a self-sufficient community off of the grid.
For full details, see the presentation.
Team Profile
Meet our members
Gerthy Lahens, a Haitian grassroots community organizer
Jan Wampler is a Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Melvin King is a retired Adjunct Professor at MIT
Thaddeus Miles is the Director of Public Safety at MassHousing
Johanne Blain, Co-founder of Friends of Petite Anse Inc
Dr. Riche Zamor, head of Fondwa University
Virginie Greene is a Professor of French at Harvard University
Ryan Doone, Amanda Levesque and Ira Winder are design students at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.
Tal Goldenberg and Renelle Torrico are recent MIT alumni.
For complete bios, see About our team
NEWS UPDATES
Progress and Press coverage
March 25, 2010 – The Renaissance Project – Hope for Haiti received a warm welcome from the Boston press and community at a press conference that introduced an ambitious plan to provide shelter for a thousand people displaced by the earthquake, and provide a model for sustainable settlements in Haiti and throughout the world.
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Help us help Haiti
Our aim is to house one thousand people in one hundred days. Please help us achieve this goal.