# Hexayurt Country > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [13]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (PDF), 2010-02 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/healing_haiti.pdf. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Country-scale rehousing proposal for Haiti: a real-world test case for Harappa's shelter and sanitation. - Career works it belongs to: - Hexayurt Country (2010): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would... - Hope for the World (2009): Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief and development aid are one problem, and... (suggested by machine) - The Private Humanitarian Company (2010): One-page sketch of a company modeled on private military companies, using operations and logistics talent... (suggested by machine) - Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB) (2010): Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent disaster that kills about 20 million a year,... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Haiti (10 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated); Buttered Side Down (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Engineers Without Borders (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); Kerala model (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2010, 1 undated); toilets (3 here; 44 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); STAR-TIDES (2 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); self-reliance (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Sulabh (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); TIDES (2 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); drinking water (1 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 2 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Engineers Without Borders; Kerala model - Importance: core-text score 0.33 (1.00 is the top), number 217 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md): same career work: Hexayurt Country - [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md): same career work: Hexayurt Country - On the same works, just before: [84] [Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md); [16] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md); [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) - On the same works, just after: [90] [The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md); [14] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md); [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Hexayurt Country, document, 2010-02, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/healing_haiti.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [13], https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md. ## Passages [p. 1 to 20](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/healing_haiti.pdf#page=1) Vinay Gupta @ ButteredSideDown.Co.Uk Healing Haiti global cooperation & appropriate technology Buttered Side Down we solve your real problem Talk Format • a few simple slides • we’ll move through them fairly fast • ask questions / add information as we go - more interactive than usual Haiti in a Nutshell •Revolution in 1804 •Debt slavery to France & co •Dirt poor (1/6 income of the Dominican Republic) •About half had no water or sanitation The Earthquake •10m country, 1/3 in capitol •Capitol is leveled, 1m homeless people •Equivalent to losing London and having 6m UK homeless •No money to rebuild Strategic Problem •Can’t put it back like it was •Didn’t work well anyway •It’s a development challenge •To “fix” this is politics too •Can we articulate our goals? No, tents will not fix this Kerala Model? •76 year life expectancy •vs. Haiti’s 61 years •On 1/4 the avg. income •So now we have a quandary Fixed Haiti? •>500K small farms (10m) •2/3 are farmers •Awful food security issues •Fix this and you fix Haiti? Swadeshi •Haiti is typical of poverty •Villages share an ecological niche: organic farmer •Self-reliant villages can carry a lot of resilience •Just means self-reliance How? International Help •Know how & cash, not just cash •Cuba has incredible farming •India has toilets (Sulabh) •Haiti itself has water filters (AMURT Haiti) Coordination? •How do we put the right know-how into play? •Mass collaboration online •STAR-TIDES.net etc. •ICT as the backbone of sci/ engineering cooperation Copy What Works •Plenty of point successes •Collect, replicate, scale •A global effort to pull together working solutions •Towards an agreed goal: improving life in Haiti The Big Five •Stop smoking •Filter drinking water •Stoves (vs. charcoal in Haiti) •Toilets •Improved agriculture Cost per Item •Stop smoking: free •Filters: $20 or less / house •Stoves: $20 or less / house •Toilets: $40 per house (>) •Improved ag: $100 per farm Immediate Relief •Chlorinate water (nasty but cheap and it works) •Skip tents entirely, go to hexayurts / similar shelters •Work on transitional infrastructures Engineers Without Borders / Practical Action Hexayurt Intl Coop Example •Design is copyright- and patent-free, all online •Many agencies are interested: .mil, .gov, .org •Open source is a prototype for this new style collab International Rescue •100% mobile phones in 2020 •Airdrop cell towers •Direct-data relief in day one •Universal GPS coordination •Open source collaboration References •http://hexayurt.com •http://star-tides.net •http://crisiscamp.org (LDN) •http://appropedia.org •[your site here!] Buttered Side Down we solve your real problem --- End of [13] Hexayurt Country. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); the most closely related, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.