Education
is the way up!
Promoting
Education
And
Community
Empowerment
YOU can change a life...for pennies.
let's go shopping!
Our shipping container is loaded with these two buildings (believe it or not) and ready to ship. While it's on its way, we'll be putting down forms and pouring foundations and floors. Can you help us at the checkout counter?
Shipping Container
to Haiti
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Loaded with the
two buildings above (believe it or not!)
2,000 miles/Greenbrier,Arkansas to
Port au Prince
$3.11 per mile
$10 pays for 3 miles!
$6000 total
classroom building 96'x36' 12 classrooms
multi purpose building 45'x45'x16'
recreation area, assemblies, 2 or 3 rooms on balcony
moving
container
to site
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port au prince port
to carrefour
13 miles from the port to Carrefour
$38 per mile
$40 pays for 1 mile!
$500 total
wood to
frame
concrete
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2x4s and 2x6s to make forms for footings, and floors
A pile of wood!
$1 a board foot
$100 pays for 1/8 of what we'll need!
$760 total
wire mesh to reinforce
floors
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keeps floors from cracking, adds strength during earthquakes
5500 square feet!
25 cents a square ft
$10 pays for 40 square feet!
$876 total
5500 square feet!
concrete
installed
by crew
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footings, piers and
floors
made on site
150 cubic yards
$100 a cubic yard
$3.70 a cubic foot
$15,000 total
150 cubic yard of concrete
rebar for footings
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strengthens foundation
48 bars
950 feet of rebar
$8 for a 20 foot bar
$450 total
vapor barrier
under concrete
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makes concrete stronger over time
5500 square feet!
8 cents a square foot
$10 pays for 125 sq. feet!
$450 total
6 mil
anchor bolts
bolt steel
to concrete
connects steel posts to the foundation and floor
$7.65 each
40 needed
$360 total
labor:
10 Haitian
workmen
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hardworking guys who need work
Hard workers!
$2 an hour x 8 hours
10 days
$16 a day per man
$1600 total
