Village Rebuilding

Framing the new house
Indonesia, 2009


Following the West Sumatra earthquake on September 30, 2009, HISG worked with partners throughout Southeast Asia and beyond to identify and meet critical needs in the area. During Disaster Response operations, HISG supported efforts to create a long-term process of rebuilding of the community, along with meeting the immediate needs.


HISG continues to work with a team outside the city of Padang to help 500 rural families, roughly 2,000 people. The aid program began shortly after the earthquake, providing basic survival kits of supplies like sleeping mats, blankets, lanterns, cooking stoves, cooking and eating utensils, as well as tools to rebuild homes and tents that were used to set up a temporary school. The long-term plan for the community includes rebuilding their school and their houses and building a new health center.


The team has joined with those in the community to begin construction of several of their houses in an effort to provide shelter prior to the coming rainy season. The families who lost their homes are all engaged in building the new ones both by salvaging bricks from collapsed buildings and by helping cut down the lumber to be used in the construction. The local people have seen that they can help themselves, and by making a commitment to the project they are filling a vital role in rebuilding their village.


The recovery process includes plans for building both a school and clinic. The school building collapsed in the earthquake, but there had never been a clinic in the village. Teams of teachers and nurses will come to the village to staff the school, update the curriculum and train villagers to work in the health center. There is also an economic aspect that will focus on training local workers to use resources in such a way that the village profits from their efforts.


Out of the tragedy of the earthquake, HISG has helped to coordinate teams from around the region and the world to work together with the local villagers to rebuild their community. The end result will be a village transformed by better schools, better health care, and better economic opportunity.


A photo gallery with more pictures from this project is online here.


This project has been tagged as a Holistic Integrated Sustainable Transformation project. Of the 12 HIST Primary Service Categories, activities took place in these areas.
Holistic Integrated Sustainable Transformation
1. Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

2. Arts, Entertainment and Sports

3. Economic Development

4. Information, Communications, Technology

5. Education
6. Family Development, Support

7. Government

8. Security, Justice, and the Rule of Law

9. Health, Hygiene

10. Medical
11. Infrastructure

12. Non-Profit Organizations
Want to learn more about the models developed by HISG for sustainable development and disaster response? Click here HIST Model or here IDR Model.


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