Projects
AWB-Seattle undertakes projects in disaster recovery, international community development and local community development. We partner with communities and organizations that demonstrate need, request our services and are committed to project implementation. We focus on projects that have a broad impact at the community level and we cultivate long term relationships in order to effect culturally appropriate, lasting change.
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DISASTER RECOVERY
Each year, earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes, eruptions, floods and tsunamis leave thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.AWB-Seattle recognizes that insufficient shelter, damaged infrastructure and the spread of disease prolong and expand the tragedy that follows. We are committed to helping communities rebuild their homes and infrastructure after the initial shockwaves of disaster have subsided.
Kalapuwa Sri Boys Orphanage: Kapungoda
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Response
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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Half of the world’s people live on less than two dollars a day. They struggle to raise enough food to feed their families, lack shelter and suffer from the debilitating effects of malnutrition and disease. AWB-Seattle in working to ease the hardships of poverty through wholistic, culturally appropriate design. With each project, we strive not only to provide shelter but to increase the fertility of agricultural lands, create opportunities for income generation, improve health and revitalize damaged ecosystems. As we complete serial projects in the same communities over the course of many years we gain intimate knowledge of the cultures and ecologies in which we build.
Venilale Community Meeting Hall
LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
AWB believes in thinking globally and acting locally in communities regardless of where they are in the world. Seattle is one of the communities we are particularly committed to working in. We provide design assistance Seattle’s underpriveledged communities and the organizations that support them.