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IntbauPak team, led by Chair, Ar. Murad Jamil, visits Pono Markaz and surrounding villages.

On 14 September, IntbauPak team led by chair Ar. Murad Jamil visited Pono Markaz and surrounding villages to see the production and distribution of emergency shelters. They were shown around various villages and met with villagers. Sumera, HF’s Social Mobilizer received the guests and introduced them to the artisans, Champa, Kanji, Dahni, Khoma, Raju. After visiting some houses in Pono village and interviewing the men and women in the houses and asking them about the shelters, they saw the stoves and solar water filter model being made there. The team also visited the people who were living on the road and asked them about the problems they were facing. Next, the team visited Mondh village and visited the houses and talked to the people. The people of the village let the team know that due to the extreme rainfall this year, their houses were almost destroyed, but the houses built by the Heritage Foundation withstood the extreme weather.  With the help of Ar. Yasmeen Lari, the villagers have also built a school by themselves in which the children of the village study. Jeevan, who teaches the children, was given 20 thousand rupees in cash by Ar. Murad Jamil to get a table, chair and stationery for the school. 

Awareness Session at Karachi Gymkhana

Yasmeen Lari addressed a large group of philanthropists organised by Hawa Abdullah at Karachi Gymkhana. She discussed her Barefoot Social Architecture Culture of Giving and promoted adoption of villages in order to develop a connection with village communities directly.  Safeeyah Moosa CEO Spiritual Chords, South Africa, a long term supporter of HF work who has been invited by Yasmeen Lari to establish a similar training centre as Pono Village Markaz explained the objectives. And invited the audience to join her and consolidate their efforts. It was decided that a zoom meeting will be held with Safeeyah Moosa by interested participants.

Training for Emergency Shelter Assembly

On 10th September 2022, training was carried out for artisans from Shikarpor and Naushro Feroz.  HF PM Naheem Shah organized training for the assembly and dismantling of shelters for the artisans who were tasked to carry the load of 40 prefab units each to respective locations.

INTBAU Pakistan’s Founding Members visit ZC3 Makli.

Founder members Ar. Khadija Jamal, Hon Srcy. Shanaz Ramzi and trustee Ar. Tariq Feroz visited HF’s Zero Carbon Centre at MakliI on 10th September to monitor fabrication and installation of emergency LOG Shelter. They were received by HF PM Naheem Shah who took them around the site and introduced them to the artisans' workforce.

4. Flood Blog by Ar. Yasmeen Lari: Pono Markaz Skilled Satellites (contd.)

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3. Flood Blog by Ar. Yasmeen Lari: Pono Markaz Skilled Satellites

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2. Flood Blog by Ar. Yasmeen Lari: Pono Markaz as Facilitator

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1. Flood Blog by Ar. Yasmeen Lari: Pono Village as Markaz

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Lari Octa Green Emergency Shelters

In order to deal with the shelter emergency, Heritage Foundation Pakistan has provided the displaced families of the flood sticken village, Pono Village with the ‘Lari Octa Green’ shelters, a sustainable green construction. The structure can be fabricated and erected at a very rapid pace. It takes in fact only a couple of hours to build one bamboo shelter, making it extremely time saving considering the emergency at hand. Up till now 15 shelters have been made and more are under construction.

Heritage Foundation’s Flood Emergency Response: Aqifer Trench Project

In the past few days, following the disasters due to the heavy rains in the Sindh region, Heritage Foundation Pakistan reached out to some of the worst hit villages in Makli and Mirpurkhas (Pono Village), elaborating effective and economical approaches through vernacular methodologies. Calamities like this one prove us once again that climate change is not science fiction but destroys real people’s lives in the snap of a finger. The strategy has been developed by Heritage Foundation CEO Ar. Lari who has brought together a compact team of collaborators willing to give their contribution.  Rainwater drainage process coordinated by Miss Lari’s team of experts has started to get executed with the support of the villagers. A low-cost approach has been studied and analyzed starting from the aquifer trench, which will serve to collect the stagnant rainwater that is 8/9 inches deep and spread over at various locations in the distressed area.  All actions will include maximum participation of affected households themselves, strengthening their capabilities and skills. Targeted training modules are in fact offered for implementing partners, volunteers, artisans and communities. The strategy also includes the transfer of prefabricated bamboo shelters that will be directly sent to the villages and composed on-site by the community.

Pono Village is located in the district of Mirpurkhas (Sindh) which in the past week has witnessed incredible damage from the heavy rains. A solution to drain the water out of the village has been studied and examined by the Heritage Foundation Pakistan.

The solution that’s been brought up is to create an aquifer trench (4’-0’’x4’-0’’) that will act as a natural drain for the rainwater.

As drawn on the map, in red is shown the path that must be followed in order to dig the aquifer trench. The latter will follow the left side of the main road surrounding the right side of the village.The Project will be later on be developed into a more structured one, that will include the creation of a forest along the main road and a boundary wall positioned right next the aquifer trench.