To fully enact our reconstruction plan in Haiti we encourage you to fund raise with us; while many donors gave to us online, you can also organize your own 'lemonade stand' on our behalf. Here are a few of the inspiring ones we know about. We are immensely grateful for everyone who steps up to make good design available to the Haitian community.

Text to Help - via Causecast
Just text AFHBUILD to 85944 and a $10 donation to Architecture for Humanity's Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction will be added to your cellphone bill.

Pecha Kucha 20x20
It only took 20 seconds to destroy so many bright hopes and dreams in Haiti. The 280 city PechaKucha network is joining with Architecture for Humanity to help rebuild Haiti 20 seconds at a time.

In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Architecture for Humanity, the Bezos Family Foundation and Global Nomads Group have partnered to create “www.studentsrebuild.org,” a $500,000 matching challenge grant and call to action for middle and high school students and educators around the globe to help rebuild better, safer schools in Haiti.

Students: Create teams that raise funds and partner in the sustained reconstruction effort. Through interactive video, conversations with building professionals and live connections to Haitian students, you’ll learn first-hand how people can rebuild communities and lives.

Visit www.studentsrebuild.org to learn more and sign up your team.

Join us for a special 'Classroom of the Future' lunch presentation at 12:30 Wednesday, February 10th at SPUR gallery - located at 654 Mission Street. IDEO, San Francisco, a winner of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classrom, will present their design for a school in a low-income neighborhood in Hyderabad, India. The exhibition is open through February 26th for viewing.

For us, nothing is more vital than to build temporary, transitional and permanent schools. Not only bringing a sense of normalcy to the lives of those affect by the recent earthquake but to build anchors of recovery in communities have been torn apart. Thanks to the support of Ben Stiller, Shakira, Howard Buffett, Trevor Neilson and others we can begin to build hope for the future leaders of Haiti.

Destruction of schools in Haiti quake crushes hopes of a better future for many
By William Booth and Scott Wilson

Washington Post Staff Writers | Saturday, January 23, 2010; A01

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Of the many things taken from this city by the earthquake, few are as threatening to Haiti's future as the near destruction of a school system viewed across society here as the only path to a better life.

After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, Ben Stiller and the Stillerstrong project is now changing its efforts to the Haitian School Initiative, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. We will develop and build a series of temporary and transitional schools where they are needed most. We need get children back in school by building strong, safe and sustainable facilities that protect them in the months and years it will take to rebuild their country.

The future of Haiti has never seemed so bleak. Large-scale reconstruction is not yet a priority, but the country will be rebuilt. BNN investigates how other nations have recovered from this catastrophe and what's involved. BNN speaks to Kate Stohr, managing director and co-founder, Architecture for Humanity.

http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip258406