- Haitian Health Foundation Happy Houses -
Description
Charles Hilton Architects is pleased to partner with the Haitian Health Foundation in the construction of “Happy Houses” for the needy in area of Jeremie, Haiti. The Haitian Health Foundation is a Connecticut based non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the poorest citizens in the Western Hemisphere through healthcare, education and community development projects. Housing for many in rural Haiti is deplorable. Families often live together in small rickety shacks of cardboard, tin, rags and straw with dirt floors. Vermin and insects are impossible to control and roofs regularly leak or are blown away.
The Happy House program replaces these shacks with concrete block houses with cement floors, a tin roof, windows and doors. Recipients are selected by a vote of Village Committees to ensure that only the neediest families receive them. Whenever possible, recipients participate in the construction. A Happy House provides humane living conditions, improved sanitation and dignity for their owners. In an ongoing program, Charles Hilton Architects is supporting the construction of one Happy House each quarter of every year since the company’s inception.
More information about the vital work of the Haitian Health foundation and the Happy House program can be found at www.haitianhealthfoundation.org.
“I had the pleasure of working with Chuck and his team recently to help visualize, create, and execute on my clients dream of having a local foundation office in Connecticut. From the inception meeting, Chuck listened carefully, considered what the client was requesting, and masterfully designed exactly what they were looking for. I've worked with a lot of architects over the past twenty-five years, and I can confidently say, there is no experience like working with Charles Hilton Architects. They epitomize the word ‘Professional’.”
– MARK MALONEY - OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE
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“I have worked with Chuck Hilton for over twenty years, and I have the utmost respect for him both professionally and personally. We have each evolved from the "newby" Greenwich Architect and General Contractor to the prestigious firms that we both are today, based on unwavering attention to Clients and their goals, and delivering their projects with the highest level of enduring quality. Charles Hilton Architects is at the very top of my list of Architects that I choose to work with, for new homes and significant renovations to special properties. Chuck has assembled a fabulous Team, capable of designing and executing projects with unparalleled attention to details and quality. Their plans and construction documents are superbly presented, which is vital to me as a General Contractor. I have always had a wonderful working relationship with his Team, in a field where this is not always the case. We both put aside any thoughts of who brings the most value to the Project, and instead focus on working together as a larger Team, on behalf of the Client and the Project. The results speak for themselves, on every project.”
– ALLEN J REYEN of REYEN INC