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United Caribbean Trust (UCT) has been working in Haiti over the last four years Jenny Tryhane the Founder was in Haiti during the earthquake and remained there for three months to give assistance and distribute items donated by the Barbadian public and is perfectly positioned to assist with the rebuilding of Haiti.

UCT has identified land in the Les Cayes area for a Building Pilot Project.

This land will be subdivided into 3,000 sq foot residential plots. Housing four different house plans starting from a starter home of 560 sq ft.

This starter home can be constructed without the covered deck at 400 sq ft. A small selection of these homes will be made available and we are believing God that we can build them for US $10,000 each. These could be donated by large churches or charities to house some of the Haitian still living in the tent cities.

A similar version 2 bedroom 1 bathroom 800 sq ft home will be available. We will be targeting the Haitian American market for the sale of these homes. Prices will soon be added.

This compact well designed home offers a front deck and a back screened porch. Each home will be built on 5,000 sq foot of land with a 99 year lease. A small maintenance fee will be charged annually to assist with maintaining the communal recreational park areas and the surrounding boundaries.

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This beautifully designed 1000 sq foot 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home will be available.

Direct entrance into a large Family Room. The kitchen is spacious including the dining area. Space is available for a washing machine. Each of the 3 bedrooms has built in closets and the master bedroom has an ensuite toilet and shower.

This architecturally designed 1,300 sq foot home is the top of our range for this development. All the homes will be set in beautifully landscaped surroundings creating a character development.

This home offers a covered porch and separate entrance lobby, large family room, dining room and separate kitchen. The kitchen leads out onto a back porch. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms with built in closets in all the bedrooms, communal closet in the hall and a separate closet in the master en suite.

Solar lighting

UCT will be researching the possibility of solar lighting for these homes identifying companies that are already bringing relief to Haiti such as Sol Inc.

www.solarlightingusa.com

Since 1990 Sol, Inc. has manufactured solar powered and LED outdoor lighting solutions for commercial and institutional clients in 61 countries on six continents. As the creator of the solar lighting industry, Sol Inc knows how to create your SOLution.

About Sol, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Sol, Inc. is the largest and most established firm dedicated to the design and manufacturing of commercial-grade solar lighting solutions. Based in Palm City Florida, Sol has over 38,000 reliable solar lighting systems installed worldwide. Sol’s solar lights systems provide trouble-free lighting with unsurpassed levels of illumination and reliability for applications including street, roadways, parking lots, paths, trails, parks, and recreation areas, signs, billboards, academic campuses, and bus shelters.

The Sol, Inc team in Haiti has been reporting postive response to efforts in providing solar lighting. Sol Inc.’s solar lights are shining brightly all night long to expand relief and recovery efforts throughout Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.

UCT partnering with organization like the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)

Our Mission Energy is a Human Right The mission of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is to provide solar power and wireless communications to a quarter of the world’s population living in energy poverty.

SELF believes that energy is a human right. To meet global challenges such as food and water scarcity, climate change and poverty, SELF is working to assign greater priority to the importance of sustainable energy among international development banks, aid agencies, foundations, and philanthropic individuals, who are committed to improving the health, education, and economic prospects of the world's poorest citizens.

Composting Toilets

Pour-flush pit latrines overcome the problems of flies, mosquitoes and odour by having a pan with a water seal (a U-shaped conduit partly filled with water) in the defecation hole. Excreta deposited in the latrine pan is flushed by pouring 2 to 3 litres of water into it. Water remains in the U-shaped conduit blocking air flow and odour. The mixture is directed into a pit and organic wastes are biodegraded. Sludge has to be regularly emptied from the pit. The use of two adjoining pits alternately enables the sludge in a full pit to undergo further decomposition while the other pit is being used, and enables manual sludge emptying after further sludge decomposition. More water percolates through the soil surrounding the pit, and the potential for groundwater pollution is higher. A pour flush toilet with a pit is therefore not suitable when groundwater table is close to the surface

Play Pumps www.waterforpeople.org

While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump merry-go-round (1), clean water is pumped (2) from underground (3) into a 2,500-liter tank (4), standing seven meters above the ground.

A simple tap (5) makes it easy for adults and children to draw water. Excess water is diverted from the storage tank back down into the borehole (6).

The water storage tank (7) provides a rare opportunity to advertise in outlaying communities. All four sides of the tank are leased as billboards, with two sides for consumer advertising and the other two sides for health and educational messages. The revenue generated by this unique model pays for pump maintenance.

The design of the PlayPump water system makes it highly effective, easy to operate and very economical, keeping costs and maintenance to an absolute minimum.

Capable of producing up to 1,400 liters of water per hour at 16 rpm from a depth of 40 meters, it is effective up to a depth of 100 meters.

In 2007, the Water For People World Water Corps® completed a study to determine in which new countries Water For People would work. The Dominican Republic had immense need for Water For People’s involvement and was chosen for a new country program.

UCT is researching the possibility of working in partnership with Water For People to introduce this concept into this new building development to being water to the Child Care Center and Child Care Homes within the complex.

Building Systems:

Four different building companies are being researched they all offer earthquake and hurricane resistant houses at affordable prices.

Structall Building Systems - FLORIDA

www.structall.com

Structall Building Systems offers a complete line of structural insulated panels perfect for residential, commercial and industrial applications.

Panels are comprised of various components, including aluminum, steel, oriented strand board (OSB), and polystyrene foam. TOTAL LIVING AREA - 576 SQ. FT. 2 bedroom, 1 bath

The Snap-N-Lock™ Panel, our most requested panel, has an expanded polystyrene foam core with aluminum or steel exterior skins. The skins are rolled to form a unique, patented locking system that snaps together quickly and easily. The foam is routed to form a continuous foam interface which makes the panel extremely energy efficient. The Snap-N-Lock™ Panel also has its own structural integrity. A wide variety of building materials including shingles and vinyl siding can be applied directly to the exterior of the panel; however the baked enamel finish makes this step purely cosmetic. There is no long term inconvenience; most structures can be erected in as little as a day with a small crew.

The Snap-N-Lock™ Panel is just the beginning in a complete line of energy efficient building panels. Panels are available 1" to 8" thick, up to 32' long and in 23-1/8" or 48" widths. All panels adapt easily to a variety of floor plans and offers a wide range of design flexibility and usages including homes, in-plant offices, freestanding units, restaurants, industrial storage units, condominium carport facilities and loading zone canopies. Several quality control check points assure that the highest degree of factory tolerances for alignment, lamination, and finish quality will be maintained.

Service Centers are located in Florida, Texas and Louisiana. Delivery is available via our fleet of trucks within the Southeastern and Midwest United States. Containerized shipments to the nearest port of choice and common carrier shipments are also available.

Holding Up To Nature

The SNAP-N-LOCK™ panel is engineered to hold up against nature's toughest challenges. Quite possibly, one of the toughest challenges a home must withstand is surviving the constant onset of pesky insects like termites. Unlike wood, the SNAP-N-LOCK™ panel offers no food value to insects. The panel, when clad with light gauge steel skins, makes for the "Ultimate Steel Stud." Used in conjunction with interior light gauge steel framing and insect resistant foam, this version of the house package can truly be termite proof.

In several cases where homes within close proximity to one another were leveled by tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes, SIP homes have been found standing. The continuous wall and roof prevents sudden surges of air pressure within the home. The Snap-N-Lock™ Insulated Panel also has the strength of an I-beam. The skins act like flanges, taking compressive and tensile loads, while the insulation works like an I-beam web, distributing shear forces and keeping the skins from buckling.

Humidity is one of the most destructive elements of nature, in regards to construction materials. Aluminum or steel laminated to both sides of the panel provides an impermeable barrier against the transmission of water vapor. The coefficient of permeability for the SNAP-N-LOCK™ panel is 00, compared to a 2.4 coefficient for brick. The rating is determined by the quantity of water vapor that can penetrate the material in 1 hour/sq. ft. x 1" Hg. mercury. A surface has increased impermeability the smaller the rating. Metal skins can be custom laminated to any of our OSB panels to create a water vapor barrier on one or both sides of the panel.

www.structall.com

Duratherm SIP - MEXICO

http://durathermsips.com/

More cost effectively build a stronger, safer, more durable & energy efficient home structure that is also environmentally friendly & responsible in much less time than other construction systems.

The Duratherm Mexico SIP panels are different to other SIP systems because Duratherm structural insulated panels with a polystyrene core use the stronger outer sheeting of cement sheet (like Hardibacker) not OSB (oriented strand board). You do not need to fix sheet rock or waterproofing to the panels as they arrive from the factory ready for painting or tiling etc. saving you money and time.

More cost effectively build a stronger, safer, more durable & energy efficient home structure that is also environmentally friendly & responsible in much less time than other construction systems.

The Duratherm Mexico SIP panels are different to other SIP systems because Duratherm structural insulated panels with a polystyrene core use the stronger outer sheeting of cement sheet (like Hardibacker) not OSB (oriented strand board). You do not need to fix sheet rock or waterproofing to the panels as they arrive from the factory ready for painting or tiling etc. saving you money and time.

Eco Friendly

Our panels are made of renewable materials that are 100% recyclable. The UN has approved this material for green building projects. The added insulation of the polystyrene creates a far more efficient home than conventional timber or concrete building methods.

The polystyrene insulation of the panels provide great sound proofing & thermal resistance qualities.

SIPs have been found to be the safest building system for earthquake zones. Our product can also withstand 200 mile per hour winds for hurricane prone areas.

Because this modern building product is fire resistant is can be used to make a fire break between rooms. Your children will be sleeping in the safest building system money can buy when you build a SIP house.

SIPs have been found to be the safest building system for earthquake zones. Our product can also withstand 200 mile per hour winds for hurricane prone areas.

Because this modern building product is fire resistant is can be used to make a fire break between rooms. Your children will be sleeping in the safest building system money can buy when you build a SIP house.

Earthquake proof building materials

If you have ever built a SIP house then you already know how to build an earthquake proof house. The strength that a SIP provides as a building material is unmatched for price by other building materials. Because a SIP house is glued and screwed, it will hold up well against the strongest of earthquakes.

Benefits
• Low permeability
• Fireproof
• No smoke
• Does not rot or rust
• Durable
• Comfortably insolated
• Performs well in earthquakes & hurricanes

Resistant
• Moisture and fire
• Salty environments
• Termites and bacteria
• Chemical agents
• Corrosion
• Fungi and microorganisms
• Natural disasters like earthquakes

SIP sizes & prices

Floor and roof panels are 6” thick. Wall panels are 4" thick. All panels have both facings of 3/8 in. thick hardboard fiber cement sheet panel. Panels come in lengths of 8' or 10' or 12'.

SIPs are easy to cut with standard hand tools which eliminates complications on the job site. We can however always cut the panels for you at our factory. We prepare the panels for easy assembly by placing identifying marks before shipping them to you for assembly.

In 2004, the International Code Council’s Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) approved the use of structural insulated panels (SIPs) on the West Coast of the USA where high-risk seismic zones exist (Seismic Categories D1, D2, and E.)

This is good news for all building professionals and home buyers who want a stronger, safer home with the energy savings and comfort that SIP built homes provide.

The panel factory in Mexico makes each structural insulated panel as a sandwich. The outside surfaces are fiber cement sheet and the core is EPS (expanded polystyrene) used for insulation. This simple sandwich panel forms an amazingly strong insulated panel for building. You can then use any kind of finishing, stucco, tile or rock.

"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. "
Jonah 2:8

United Caribbean Trust (UCT) will be the sole beneficiary from this commercial venture being launched by United Caribbean Services Inc. (UNSI) and off shore company registered in Barbados where the Head Office and Administrative center will be located.

Profits from UNSI will be channeled into UCT to enable the Trust to establish a humanitarian complex including a Child Care Center featuring a school/clinic/mission house/sanctuary plus numerous Child Care Homes and a Women's Empowerment Center. Seen here and below the Child Care Center.

This plan was originally conceptualized for Africa by Rev. Ramona Eastmond from Set the Captives Free and were been drawn by Liz Quintyne Inc. We are believing God to utilize this system in Haiti.

Nestled around the Child Care Center will be the Child Care Homes. Housing 12 orphans and a house parent in each unit.

This four bedroom two bathroom home will offer comfortable earthquake and hurricane resistant housing for these children. Communal cooking will take place in the Child Care Center but a small kitchen will be equipped to service basic needs for the family.

These house plans are being priced through each of the four manufacturing companies already mentioned and site plans and business plans are already being looked into.

A Haitian team is already in place and venture capital, Praise God has been invested into UCSI to assist with the subdivision and resurveying plus the cost of the site plan, business plan and basic infrastructure. Once these are all ready UCSI will be seeking funding to erect the Child Care Center and one Child Care Home on the 5 acres segregated for this purpose.

The Child Care Center will be used initially as a Mission House to house 12 missionaries comfortable. UCT will be promoting these Mission Trips throughout the Caribbean, America and England to assist with the building process. The Haitian team will lay the foundations and the missionaries will assist with the building.

This will be a great Mission Holiday because a team of 12 can erect one of these houses in less that a week. What a wonderful achievement. Praise God.