Housing homeless people and teaching them to build a house

On the coming May 10, Lamon Luther the founder of this charity will give away a tiny house to launch its charitable foundation to offer housing for its homeless employees. The tiny house was built by a bunch of homeless employee. It is made up of 50 percent reclaimed wood which kept hundreds of thousands of pounds of old houses, barns and pallets out of landfills.

The interior of the tinyhouse showing the recycled timber fittings

The exterior of the tinyhouse showing the recycled timber cladding

The money they received from the entries in the giveaway event will be used to hire more homeless employee and the housing for the homeless employee. 

I think this project is a great idea because it not only empowered the homeless people with building skills also its goal is to provide shelters for them. Moreover, over half of the building materials they used were recycled materials. As I mentioned in the previous blog, we should reduce the construction waste, this project is an excellent example that is beneficial not only to the earth but also to the society. 

In one of the guest lecture, the guest speaker mentioned what is the resilient measures to help people who suffered in disaster. Instead of donating a large sum of money to them where most of the money goes to other peoples' hands, we should empower the people and giving them confidence to start lives again. Same with homeless people, we empower them with skills and they work as part of the society. It is a sustainable workforce where the skilled homeless employee can pass the skills to the other homeless people. Also, the tiny houses has given a new value to the abandoned timber and steel from other construction site which is help to reduce waste for our environment. Therefore, I totally support the Tinyhousegiveaway program.

References:
Lamon Luther to Give Away a Tiny House to Raise Money for Homeless Employees. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/lamon-luther-to-give-away-a-tiny-house-to-raise-money-for-homeless-employees-2112375.htm

Home. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2016, from http://www.tinyhousegiveaway.co/