1st Meeting with th Housing Innovations Guys

Yesterday I met with Chris Gaido (my good friend who started all of this) and Kirk and Brad from Housing Innovations. The purpose of this meeting was to just get to know each other and see if we would end up making a good team. These guys share a lot of the same vision that I share both in humanitarian and spiritual ways. They have a lot of focus on making a business model for a 3rd world country that can keep the business in the locals hands with a little support. It's not a model that enables the people but gives them the tools and the power to start and maintain a successful business. In doing this they stimulate the economy, empower locals, and provide the community with a solid, consistent and dependable product....the I.S.S.B. blocks.

The I.S.S.B. is a block for building constructing walls. Hopefully we'll be building a community center with these blocks in a Nairobi slum VERY soon. The blocks are made with the soil that is all around Kenya a little bit of water and less than 10% concrete and then it has to cure for 28 days. The block is made in a press that is human powered and can be used for many different applications. The basic blocks are a tongue and groove type of block that requires no cement to join them together. It's like a big kids building block set!!! This is great!!!! It's gets even better because you can use different jigs and build roofing, radius pieces, or anything else that you can make a jig for. We can engineer the blocks to make them safer for different applications. The product is cheap enough to make to be able to sell it for half of the price of the closest type of building material. The next up is a kiln dried brick that is of poor quality and inconsistent dimensions. So we have a superior product at a fantastic price that can stimulate the economy and make jobs while providing safer housing.

How can we go wrong here? So we have the opportunity to rub elbows with with some new people and help them while stimulating the economy. On top of all of that this is where I feel God sending me and I've learned that following Him is always in my best interest and the best interest of the world. More to come my friends!