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This photograph of children standing outside a brightly colored Global Village Shelter was taken in Grenada, one country where the use of the shelters is prevalent. The shelters can be installed utilizing common tools in less than half an hour, and can be used for at least 18 months in most climates.



Global Village Shelters to be on
exhibit at the Divinity School

Six Global Village Shelters -- an inexpensively manufactured shelter used as transitional homes and health clinics in Pakistan, Grenada and Afghanistan -- will be installed on the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle on Tuesday, Jan. 23, with the goal of raising social consciousness and providing practical knowledge to students who might eventually work with the world's poorest communities.

The installation will remain on view through the end of February. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle is located at 409 Prospect St.

Some of the shelters were installed in December on a short-term basis in connection with the Yale Divinity School's Advent service. Beginning at noon on Jan. 23, work will begin on assembling six units for the exhibition. Judith Dupre '08 M.A.R. and Emily Scott '06 M.Div. are coordinating the installation.

Global Village Shelters were designed by Dan Ferrara and Mia Ferrara Pelosi, a father-daughter architectural team based in Morris, Connecticut, who donated the shelters for this installation. Their simple, innovative design allows unskilled help to assemble the units using common tools in under a half hour. Manufactured by Weyerhauser, the paper company, the houses are made of laminated corrugated cardboard that is waterproof, fire resistant, biodegradable and can withstand most climates for at least 18 months. The units are more stable and offer more privacy than tents, but cost a fraction of what other temporary shelters now on the market do. While simple, Global Village Shelters would be considered a luxury in most refugee camps.

The shelters have already been displayed at venues including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Aspen Ideas Festival, Fortune's Brainstorm Conference, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. The shelters are a part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.

At the conclusion of the Yale exhibition, the shelters will be available to anyone having use for them and the willingness to take them away.

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