Community Development & Mortgage Alliance Corporation

"For Progress...Not Profit"

CD MAC is a US 501C-3 Non Profit Corporation

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57 Sandwich Road - Suite 51 - Wareham, MA - USA 02571

Robert Minichielli / Director - 781-831-5764

 Transitional Housing & Relocation Solution

(T.H.R.S)

for

Haiti

The objective of the Community Development & Mortgage Alliance Corporation (CD-MAC) Transitional Housing &

Relocation Solution (T.H.R.S) is to provide an evolving-panelized housing solution, set within new CD MAC villages

located  around and outside of the city limits of Pignon, Haiti. and to create within each new village a self sustaining

employment model based on an agro/light manufacturing socio/economic model

 

It is our belief that until the homeless of Haiti are removed from Port-au-Prince, the focus of reconstruction will remain

disproportionately split between food distribution, security and urban control and will fail to find an immediate and

sustainable solution for the homeless and displaced population of Port-au-Prince.

                           

                 Destroyed Elementary School in Port au Prince                  Displaced students still wear their school uniforms

The CD-MAC village concept will serve several primary goals, each village will: 

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Provide a safe and secure permanent housing solution for the displaced residents of Port-au-Prince.

 

Place children back into direct and extended family units centered on a stable community environment, wherein their

safety, health, education, nourishment and well being will be Fundamental.

 

Create a controlled and managed shelter solution allowing for safe, sanitary conditions, supplying clean water for drinking,

bathing and food preparation with common areas for eating and also planned open space for family and community

recreational activities.

 

Create a planned and managed residential environment consistent with the human carrying capacity of the selected sites/area,

so as to not over burden water, sanitary and social infrastructure, while in each location allowing for the establishment of an

effective and controlled food and services delivery and distribution model implemented for each village/site.

 

Remove the displaced population of Port-au-Prince to areas between it and the Dominican Republic where effective delivery of

food and service distribution protocols can be established and managed from two international ports, allowing each to optimize

its unique strengths and capabilities.

 

Result in the safe, humane and sustainable relocation of vast numbers of homeless, thus allowing the reduction of stress and

strain on the Port-au-Prince social, governmental and economic infrastructures and concurrently allow the international

reconstruction process of Port-au-Prince to begin. The proposed relocation and distribution of a mass homeless population from

Port-au-Prince to the surrounding countryside will allow the various Haitian and international agencies to begin planning and

implementing a permanent solution for that country.

  

Provide a modular, relocate-able, reusable and permanent housing solution in Haiti.

 

Provide the foundation of a Haitian rebuilding model through the CD-MAC home’s transformable nature that can first provide

a relocation solution to meet immediate needs and subsequently evolve into a permanent housing and economic

solution for the Haitian people.

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We plan to utilize a cooperative model of employee ownership of agriculture, business, health care, and financial systems

to institute permanent and sustainable solutions to break the cycle of poverty in Haiti.

While Phase I will focus on the immediate need to relocate the homeless out of the tent cities of Port-au-Prince, once

relocation s complete we will focus on putting social systems in place in each community to address:

 

• Education/Training
• Medical/Health/Disease Prevention
• Relief of Poverty
• Arts/Culture
• Sport/Recreation
• Economic Development/Employment

Click to see breakdown of Project Costs

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Please use the links at top of page for detailed information on our first relocation site in Pignon, Haiti .

CD-MAC is a US 501-C3   Non – Profit Corporation     57 Sandwich Road - Suite 51-Wareham, MA - USA - 02571

Robert E. Minichielli Director of Development-781-831-5764