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SAFE Bangla

 

    Every year thousands of homes are decimated across the world. Reports frequently refer to floods, cyclones and earthquakes but these are only part of the problem. The underlying disaster is often the desperate poverty in the rural communities which forces people to live in hazardous locations and in unsuitable housing. The natural phenomena cannot be abated but people can be helped to live with them.

    The Housing & Hazards Group develops practical methodologies and links professionals, academics and practitioners based in and around the University of Exeter to make safer, hazard-resistant housing available and affordable to vulnerable rural communities around the world.

 

 

 

 









Workshop participants

Sept 2013 - why not join us for a two-week workshop in rural Bangladesh... (more info)

 

Since September 2009, we have been supporting the work of SAFE Bangladesh, set up by a trainee of the H&H programme to transfer the skills and technologies developed by our activities to rural home builders in Bangladesh.  Follow the SAFE link (left) for more details.


In Sept 2010 the first Housing & Hazards  Workshop
took place in northern Bangladesh.  18  international
participants joined Bangladeshis to construct a

cement-stabilised mud house. 12 more followed in

Sept 2011 and 20 in Sept 2012  more info.