• Ecole Ceverine with Save the Children, outside Maissade, Artibonite. Rehabilitation and extension of a primary school for 257 students.
• Ecole La Dignité, Cayes Jacmel, Sud. Two-classroom extension for the only free private school in the Jacmel area.
• St. Louis de Gonzague chemimstry and physics building, Delmas 33, Port-au-Prince. The chemistry and physics building of the renown secondary school class required a complete structural overhaul.
• Collège Mixte Le Bon Berger, phase 1 Montrouis. Reconstruction of eight classrooms for a school entirely compromised by the earthquake. New construction will support 450 students.

In construction

• Ecole Baptiste Bon Berger, Pele, Port-au-Prince. Phased construction of 20 classrooms for 1100 students near Cité Soleil.
• École Elie Dubois Phase 1, Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince. Historic downtown school for 350 young women, offering academic and professional training. Phase 1 includes the design and construction of a new kitchen, cafeteria, and bio-digestor toilet building
• Haiti Partners Children's Academy, Bawonsya, Ouest. New primary school for 250 children designed by BAR Architects for a new generation of Haitian students.
• Ecole Nationale Republique d'Argentine, Phase 1, Bel Air, Port-au-Prince. Reconstruction of a primary school for 840 students. Phase 1 includes the renovation of 7 classrooms.
• College Coeur Immacule de Marie, Phase 1, downtown, Port-au-Prince. The new design program includes 8 classrooms, and a kitchen

In Design

• Ecole Nationale Republique d'Argentine, Phase 2, Bel Air, Port-au-Prince. Reconstruction of a primary school for 840 students. Phase 2 includes the construction of 4 classrooms, administration, kitchen, toilet block, multipurpose area and landscaping.
• College Coeur Immacule de Marie, Phase 2 & 3, downtown, Port-au-Prince. The design program includes 16 classrooms, administrative space, an IT lab, a latrine building, volleyball court, and a pavilion, for 850 female students spanning grades 1-12.
• College Mixte Le Bon Berger, Phase 2, Montrouis, north of Port-au-Prince. Building two new classrooms, a toilet-block and landscaping. In the first phase we build already 8 classrooms. There are 600 children in this school in the age of 2-17 years old.
• École Elie Dubois Phase 2, Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince. Historic downtown school for 350 young women, offering academic and professional training. Phase 2 includes the renovation of the historic classroom building

Civic arts for schools

In partnership with Deutsche Bank and the Digicel Foundation, the Civic Arts for Schools program launched in 2011 to bring Haitian artists and their work to schoolyards around Haiti. 10 sites have been selected to receive a piece of art–artists will be selected in late 2011, with completion of work by Spring 2012.

School assessments

Architecture for Humanity continues assessing structural integrity of school buildings. See the assessments page for more information.

• mapping and documentation of economic corridors in cooperation with SMEs and reditors to understand the economic demand;
• support the financing and reconstruction of SMEs and flagship projects within the economic corridors;
• design services and green building;
• vocational training.

Bati Byen provides resources for Haitian design and construction professionals including training sessions and a professional directory.

Meetups, workshops and training

• Monthly open house - A cocktail reception is held on a monthly basis at the Rebuilding Center following selected presentations form our partners in the reconstruction effort. Contact haitivolunteer@architectureforhumanity.org for more information.
• CAD training workshops - Two-week AutoCAD training sessions for Haitian construction professionals and students. The Rebuilding Center provides laptops and AutoCAD 2009 for the sessions.
• Evaluations AIDG et formations en maçonnerie - Le Groupe de Développement d'Infrastructure Appropriée (AIDG a conduit une première série de formations en maçonnerie grâce à une subvention d'Architecture for Humanity. Ces formations ont permis de former 600 maçons et contribué à améliorer la qualité d'exécution des chantiers.

Construction manuals, technical reports and linguistic tools

• Rebuilding 101 Manual - A concise, 32-page graphic manual outlining principal recommendations for seismic- and hurricane-resistant concrete construction.
• "Transitional to What?" Report - This report examines 10 types of temporary shelters housing thousands of of Haitians around Port-au-Prince, Leogane, Papette and other towns. The report examines different attributes such as longevity and adaptability to permanence.
• Linguistic tools - Page redirects to dictionaries and linguistic sites useful for facilitating translations between English, Creole and French.
• Bamboo beyond words - A manual of best practice. Collaboration between Architecture for Humanity and Kleiwerks international to develop a preliminary manual, without words, on the use of bamboo for the purpose of construction.

Community-developed planning

• Santo Community Development Plan, near Léogâne - At the request of the Municipality of Léogâne, Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanityare collaborating with a local population to create an urban infrastructural plan to establish a new population center. Local planning office SODADE facilitated the participation of the community and oversee design.
• Villa Rosa and Saint Marie Community Action Plan, Turgeau, Port-au-Prince - A neighborhood with a history of unplanned development faced catastrophic damage in the earthquake and requires a community-organized strategy to build back better. As part of the Governments 16/6 neighbourhood improvement policy, and in collaboration with the Casec of Turgeau, Cordaid Haiti, Architecture for Humanity, Build Change, and other partners are working with the local community through the integrated approach in order to improve the neighbourhood and develop long term solutions for urban upgrading. Implementation is ongoing. As part of this process, the Villa Rosa: Initial Phase is a targeted area where physical improvements to housing, infrastructure, public space have been designed and built as part of a community driven process.
• Simon Pele Community Action Plan, Delma, Port-au-Prince - The Simon Pele project is a collaboration between the Simon Pele Community, Habitat for Humanity, BMPAD and Architecture for Humanity. As part of Habitat for Humanity's mission to build back stronger and safer communities in Cite Soleil, Architecture for Humanity will develop a Community Action Plan based on the Integrated Neighborhood Approach.
• Ile a Vache Community Action Plan - Architecture for Humanity has partnered with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to conduct Participatory Community Development as a first step in engaging Ile a Vache in the Southwest Department and creating a 10-year investment plan for this commune. This rural island community is located off of the Southern coast of Haiti. With a substantial population of approximately 14,000 inhabitants, it lags far behind in terms of access to basic services and necessities like clean drinking water, basic health care. Understanding priorities will be facilitated through an integrated neighborhood approach.

Save the Children

Mme Joa Clinic, outside Maissade - This small rural clinic managed by Save the Children requires dramatic renovation following years of weathering.

Digicel Group

Accessible homes for Marie and Odeline, Port-au-Prince – Digicel asked Architecture for Humanity to develop handicap-accessible house designs for a couple households in Haiti's capital.

Medical Relief International (Merlin)

• Caravelle Clinic, Caravelle, Port-au-Prince – Detailed phasing and construction plan prepared for a clinic retrofit, built in 2 months. COMPLETE
• Turbe Clinic, Turbe, Port-au-Prince. COMPLETE

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF)

• At the request of CBHF the Rebuilding Center has conducted numerous building assessments across the country. Most notably we are working in partnership with the YCF Group on the design and construction of Atelier Modayiti, a modern textile studio producing fashion items and garments for domestic and international markets

J/P Haitian Relief Organization

• Tent camp improvements, Pétionville Club, Port-au-Prince - Significant improvements to increase the durability and comfort of the temporary camp home to 50,000 displaced persons.
• Klinik Kominote, Delmas 32 - Adaptive reuse of an existing residence into a medical clinic and model for safe reconstruction. COMPLETE
• J/P HRO Hospital Platform - The clinic was in need of a platform in the interior for sanitary purposes and to avoid water run off going through the clinic. This project was accomplished with the help of the local work force and donated materials.
• J/P 1 Urgent Care Facility - In order to properly transition the medical services currently offered in the Pétionville Camp into the surrounding neighborhoods, J/P HRO will relocate these health facilities into the Delmas 32 or 40B neighborhood. COMPLETE
• École Bethesda - An existing two-story confined masonry school requires a second-floor renovation to add a classroom and provide an earthquake-resistant and weathertight enclosure for the school (and church). PHASE 1 COMPLETE
• Kay Kominote - The repair of an existing building to house services that were previously provided by the Pétionville Camp Community Center.

Mapping

Haiti Rural Mapping Initiative - With a grant from the WK Kellogg Foundation, Architecture for Humanity will map 11 eleven communes across southern and central Haiti. These maps will contain basic geographic and political information which will be available as a resource for the country.

Nike

Basketball court @ Pele - With funding from a Nike Gamechangers grant, École Baptiste Bon Berger, Pele will incorporate a basket ball court into this tight urban context on the outskirts of Cite Soleil.

• Funding for reconstruction
• Haiti School initiative
• Vocational training programs
• Consumer education and training
• Local economic development agency