Problem:
Big disasters make the news, but every day a billion people live in an endless disaster, lacking clean water, sanitation, lighting, or hope. A billion more live barely above that. NGOs rush tents and tarps that shred in months to disaster victims who live in refugee camps an average of 7 years, while NGOs in other distressed areas of the world struggle to create long-term improvement by building homes or distributing cookers for urban IDPs. 

Tens of millions live in squalor without utility infrastructure at the edges of major cities in Africa, Asia, and South America. For less than the cost of even one utility hookup, they can have comfortable, safe homes that provide their own clean water, electricity and heat, cost nothing to live in, slash pollutants from CO2 to human wastes in rivers, stimulate local micro-businesses, and instantly transform the most disadvantaged into healthy and productive communities.

For disaster relief workers we provide a secure, safe, shelter to live in while providing disaster relief.  The Flexayurts can also be used as clinics, command centers, or processing stations.

For disaster victims and urban IDPs, we provide a one-shot cure instead of temporary pain relief and partial outcomes. For less than the up-front cost of conventional utilities (electric, gas, water, and sewer), we can deliver them all, and little houses too.

Benefits:

• Homergent’s solution slashes cost versus conventional development.
• By eliminating utility costs, the global poor can reallocate an estimated 40% of their meager incomes to food, micro-businesses, and even micro-mortgages to help pay for their homes.
• By slashing disease through safe and eco-friendly water, sanitation, and cooking subsystems, they can be more productive workers.
• By studying under electric lights at night, they can get to the next level, and beyond.
• All this is accomplished with far less deforestation, carbon footprints, water pollution, and other impacts.
• Shelters used for disaster relief workers may be left behind to last up to 20 years as a health center, school, or a utility center providing clean water and cell phone charging for micro-economic development