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Non-Profit Projects and Housing in Emerging Countries

Ger is the Mongolian word for home -- a traditional home that looks a lot like a Monolithic Dome. Thus far, four gerlike Monolithic Domes have been completed for the Mongolian Life Center, an orphanage for 180 children, who had been living in primitive, plaster huts.
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Recently, Nick Van Wingerden of Double Harvest and several co-workers returned from Haiti after spending time preparing for and constructing a 20-foot EcoShell as a demonstration home for the Haitians. |
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The non-profit organization "Tolchii' Kooh" is a recipient of a HUD/NAJASDA Grant to build a 36-unit housing project for teachers, staff and public rentals. The homes are located next to the charter school located on the Navajo Nation reservation at Taloni Lake, Arizona -- some 65 miles east northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona or 45 miles north of Winslow, Arizona. |
On the Road to Nairobi-- Progress on the 'Owiti' Children's Home And Medical Centre |
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Monolithic Domes and EcoShells will soon be making a difference in the lives of orphans in Nyamasaria, Kenya. The Owiti Children's Home and Medical Center, operated by World Youth International (WYI), will open its doors sometime in 2004 and be "home" to over 50 young children. |
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A review of the book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich In the book, Ehrenreich, author of many bestsellers on problems within our society, details what I have been thinking and saying: In America, housing is by far the Number 1 problem for our low-income wage earners.
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"If you build them, they will rent." Monolithic's President
David B. South has been saying that since mid-2000 when the company
first began planning the building of an experimental complex of
dome rentals.
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