Building Hope

As many of you know, on April 16th Ecuador was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful since the 1970s. More than 600 people have lost their lives and more than 3,000 were injured. Entire towns have disappeared and thousands have lost their homes and everything they owned.

What Ecuador is going through right now is truly beyond words. There are still people trapped under buildings, there are not enough doctors for the injured, there aren’t enough caskets for the bodies, there’s no food or electricity, and the psychological toll is beginning to worsen. Thousands of people have no place to go or sleep and they've lost everything. We need everybody’s help.

Together with the Guayaquil Chamber of Construction, a group of entrepreneurs, local institutions, and help from local communities we’ve developed a project called “Construyendo Esperanza” (Building Hope), designing and building container homes that will be used as either temporary or long-term housing for the victims.