A Miami Gardens housing company is set to announce a deal that will allow them to produce simple houses for the Haiti's earthquake-ravaged citizens.
InnoVida Holdings will donate 1,000 houses to the nation and will open a factory to produce another 10,000 houses per year, the company said in a statement.
The company also expects to employ about 1,000 people at the factory, which will be located near Port-au-Prince.
Though modest, the easy to assemble homes are made of composite materials and are earthquake, mold and insect resistant.
The lightweight but durable and highly insulated homes have no wood, concrete or steel, unlike many of the dwellings that collapsed and killed tens of thousands in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Announcing the home plan with the company will be Alonzo Mourning and UM Dr. Barth Green, both of whom went to Haiti in the quake aftermath.
While the homes will give shelter, the jobs that the factory will provide are a more exciting prospect to the company.
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"In the next three to four months we will have a factory in Haiti," said InnoVida's Amarilis Osorio in an interview late last month. "We will produce in Haiti with local people."
