Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Making your house safe against strong winds

Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements

		Introduction
		World neighbors in action
		Human settlement managers training programme - handbook for the organization and design of courses
		Bridging the gap: A participatory approach to health and nutrition education
		Self-evaluation: Ideas for participatory evaluation of rural community development projects
		Local authority supervisor training program, Kenya
		Urban housing and community development course
		Teaching rural community development
		Organization and management of field education
		Project management program Harare, Zimbabwe
		Primer taller de capacitacion para mujeres dirigentes de organizaciones femininas en el districto de San Martin de porres
		Getting the community into the act: 72 participatory activities for field workers and trainers
		Board of director's course: Instructor's manual and handouts
		Tecnicas educativas
		Women and graphics: A beginner's kit
		The tribune: A women and development quarterly
		How to perform in front of an audience
		Audiovisual communication handbook
		Dialogar para construir, diseno participativo en barrios populares de Bogota
		Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.
		1. Como leer un plano - 2. Mejoramiento poblacional
		1. Sistema constructivo 'bend' - 2. Prefabricacion, sistema 'bend'
		1. El replanted - 2. Como construir una vivienda con calicanto - 3. Como construir una vivienda con bloques de concreto - 4. Como construir una vivienda con cinva-ram - 5. Como construir una vivienda con horcones y concreto
		Small-scale production of lime for buildings
		Making building blocks with the cinva-ram block press.
		Building with stabilised soil blocks
		Small-scale production of local building materials
		Manual para la construccion de vivienda con adobe
		Casas de tierra, Minka no. 9, october 1982
		Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.
		Sistematizacion de una practica tecnica en vivienda social
		Manual de autoconstruccion
		Manual de construcao moradias nas aldeias comunais.
		When you build a house: a manual of construction details for Caribbean houses with emphasis on protection from strong winds
		Cooler in summer/warmer in winter: How to improve your shha house
		Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing
		Affordable sanitation
		Making your house safe against strong winds
		A campaign plan for tinsa valley
		Cooperative housingaffordability and related technical solutions
		Co-operatives: the affordable housing alternative
		Managing housing co-ops' money
		Estructura interna de una cooperativa de vivienda: Pobladores y educacion no. 1
		Co-operative housing, a handbook for effective operations
		Co-op housing - The best move we ever made
		Ideas on proposal writing and financial/technical assistance
		Information and training materials for low-cost water supply and sanitation
		Self-help housing improvements for lowest-income communities: Motivators' and trainers' guide
		Manual para proyectos de ayuda mutua

Making your house safe against strong winds

PRODUCED BY: WORLD NEIGHBORS

AVAILABLE FROM: WORLD NEIGHBORS, 5116 N. PORTLAND AVE., OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73112, USA

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST: $US 10, INCLUDING SURFACE POSTAGE WORLWIDE

This filmstrip was photographed in India and, as a teaching aid, it has been directed to village-level audiences in South Asia. It describes how to build a secure house from bamboo and mud, using the traditional four-corner-post construction. The story is narrated by an Indian villager, how, with the advice of a technical worker, he was able to make his traditional village house secure against winds. The film emphasises the fact that the modifications to the house are both easy and inexpensive to implement. The villager could complete the work himself, with the help of the local carpenter under the direction of the technical worker. The only additional materials which had to be purchased were tar, galvanized steel strips, steel wire and 18 bamboo poles for which, according to the villager, the cost was only fractionally more than his previous house.

The film covers all the stages of building the improved house: preparing the posts, fixing cross pieces at the bottom of each post, fixing bamboo pieces in each corner, fixing cross-bracing between every two poles, fixing beams to the posts with metal strips, fixing bracing with wire and nails and fixing each bamboo in the roof to beams with steel wire.

There is an accompanying summary sheet with notes on each frame of the film. A set of questions for discussion is also included.