Nepal RSK Project Team and Nepal Red Cross
This partnership is working closely together to train RSK shelter response teams and deliver RSK shelter kits to the most needy communities at times of emergency throughout Nepal.
Myanmar
Community Development Association (CDA)
Our national partner based in Yangon that also partners UNICEF. In 2020 they set up RSK training for 66 villages in the Irrawaddy Delta region. They have partnered us with our RSK training courses since 2015 and members have taken their training to Northern Shan, Chin State and Rakhine State.
Myanmar Red Cross
Organised 3 joint RSK training courses. Partnered us for RSK disaster preparedness training for villages in the Irrawaddy Delta.
UNHCR
Partnered us for a joint RSK training course in Sittwe that included 22 Government engineers.
NRC
Staff training was followed up by NRC building RSK shelters in IDP camps in Rakhine State
The following NGOs have sent field staff for RSK training.
IOM, Save The Children, Action Aid , World Vision, Habitat for Humanity, International Rescue Committee, CARE, Medaire, Caritas, Trocaire, BRAC, Seeds Asia, LWF and KT Foundation
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Bangladesh
MSF
Invited to Kutapalong refugee camp Cox's Bazar by MSF to show staff how to build RSK shelters for temporary wards.
Local NGOs
Recommended by UNHCR to build RSK shelters for Rohingya refugee families.
Background
Reciprocal frames have a long and proven history in construction.
In Medieval times, when available timbers were too short to span a suspended floor, the solution was to use a frame of mutually supporting timbers in a planar grillage arrangement of reciprocal frames.
Leonardo da Vinci used the reciprocal frame concept repeatedly for his designs to support bridges. It is this inherent strength of the reciprocal frame that we have made use of for the roof of the RSK shelter.
The tensile strength per unit weight of bamboo is 3 to 4 times that of steel making it an ideal construction material for the reciprocal frame roof of the RSK shelter.
Leonardo Da Vinci's sketch of a reciprocal frame
A reciprocal frame is a self-supporting structure