United to Help – A non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas dedicated to helping those less fortunate in the rural villages of Senegal, Africa. The organization develops and implements projects aimed at improving the lives of children, orphans and disabled elderly. Projects have ranged from building small medical facilities and schools to providing bathhouses and fresh water wells.
The organization was founded in 2000 by a group of young Senegalese people living in Houston, Texas. Seeing how they were blessed with opportunity here in the United States, they wanted to give back and provide opportunity to those in their country who needed it most. ARCHITECTUS Eco-Habitat’s objective is to support the construction of one bathhouse and fresh water well project per year which utilizes sustainable technology.
Tikvat Am Yisrael – A non-profit organization based in Costa Mesa, California with a goal to renovate bomb shelters in the town of Nahariya. Nahariya has a population of approximately 50,000 people with 1,250 private communal shelters in urgent need of renovation. After 1990, all residential structures were required to have safety rooms; however, the majority of Israeli citizen’s live in apartment buildings built prior to 1990. They share communal bomb shelters, in time of war, which are designed to hold the capacity of the entire apartment building.
Rony Jordan, director of Tivat Am Yisrael, grew up in Nahariya and served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces. He moved to the United States, started a family and has been a California licensed contractor for 20 years. As a native Hebrew speaking Israeli with construction experience, Mr. Jordan intimately understands the Israeli cultures and is uniquely qualified to renovate shelters working efficiently with local Israeli sub-contractors. ARCHITECTUS Eco-Habitat’s objective is to support the construction of one shelter per year which utilizes sustainable technology. www.tikvatamyisrael.org