50 Simple Tools Used to Rebuild Haiti Parts of this article were
adapted from an article at Popular Mechanics Rebuilding is an
inevitable part of putting our lives back together after a
disaster. When an emergency occurs, we need tools to build,
repair and maintain our homes¬†to make them livable once more.
Those who survived the¬†Haitian earthquake¬†know this all too
well. We are all¬†familiar with the devastation that occurred
with the Haitian earthquake, the lives lost and the
reconstruction still taking place. According to an article in
Popular Mechanics, relief workers who responded to the disaster
were asked to bring their own tools in order to rebuild parts of
Haiti and they did so using 50 tools.¬†It is ironic that these
tools played such a large role in the reconstruction of¬†this
broken island. The tools used for reconstruction¬†not only
created shelters for families, and areas for sanitation, but
they gave the Haitians hope that one day their island would be
restored. In the backbreaking early stag