These Bamboo Huts in the Philippines are Designed to Survive Typhoons

It's easy to make and very cheap : a Filipino carpenter designs typhoon resistant huts to fight climate change.

EL NIDO, Philippines: Soon after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines in November 2013, skilled carpenter Gener Paduga was on a boat distributing food and plastic roofs to affected victims in Palawan.

Around him was a harrowing scene of devastation left behind by the deadliest tropical cyclone to ever hit the Philippines. It killed 6,300 people, affected some 3.4 million families and damaged more than one million houses nationwide.

In Palawan – a coastal province on the remote western border where Gener was born – collapsed homes, fallen trees and debris from coastal communities were scattered across a wide area of destruction and despair.

“I was like ‘Oh my god’. All those houses were blown away and people didn’t know what to do. They were blank,” he said. “I thought ‘how can I help these people?’.”

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Source: Channel News Asia

Region: Asia

Country: The Philippines