OUR SHELTER VISION :
to enable all people needing shelter to be able to make and use their own RSK shelter kit
for both disaster preparedness
and for disaster response
STEP 1.
SCALE UP the Nepal RSK shelter program
to help all countries at risk of recurring disasters to be able to use the RSK shelter roof innovation.
STEP 2.
PROMOTE the RSK shelter preparedness program
and make it available for all communities that are living at risk of recurring disasters.
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UNICEF RSK shelter preparedness for 66 Delta villages at risk of flash floods. Myanmar 2020
RSK shelter preparedness workshop Nepal 2025. Working on the new Urban RSk shelter kit so communities are prepared to build this unique shelter in an earthquake.
STEP 3.
INSTRUCT aid agencies and Shelter Cluster members
how to assemble, build, and use RSK shelters. This was highly successful in Myanmar and has now started in Nepal.
Working with UNHCR on the joint RSK Shelter training course in Myanmar 2017
Working with UNICEF to build two double RSKs for temporary classrooms Mahottari fire Nepal 2024
STEP 4
REACH out to medical shelter stakeholders
to fully implement the special health and safety benefits that RSK shelters provide.
UNICEF use double RSK for medicines distribution Nepal 2024.
Opening up the all- round eaves ventilation. The RSK option that can save lives in overcrowded camps. Cox's Bazar Bangladesh 2017.
STEP 5
DEVELOP our worldwide education plans
to show schools and communities how to apply the RSK concept for emergency shelter use.
Making and studying a standard RSK model. These students then proceeded to build the full size shelter. Myanmar 2015
Four volunteers each lift a corner of a 4 bamboo pole RSK roof frame (that had not yet been lashed together) to show how this arrangement it is a self -supporting structure. Sarlahi school Nepal 2023
The RSK Shelter kits use a simple 4 pole reciprocal frame roof which has many advantages over traditional bamboo lattice roof shelters. These include its load bearing strength and highly efficient use of bamboo. It also has safety options and features, some that are unique, to improve the health and welfare of recipient families, especially women, children and the disabled.
RSK shelter is an open program comprised of volunteers that aim to help both disaster responders and communities living at risk of disasters that would like to set up their own RSK shelter preparedness program.
If this is a vision your organisation would like to be part of please contact us.
Shaun Halbert
Director RSK Shelter Charity