In a couple of weeks, it’s going to be 4 years since the earthquake struck. The media’s attention is no longer focused on Haiti… but some people haven’t forgotten. Here’s part of an email from Karen about using the mosquito net tent for disaster response: I used your mosquito net tent I when I was […]
I worked in Haiti for 11 months, and slept in my SansBug mosquito net tent every day. I’ve used it on beds, grass and even concrete floors. I was working on the island of La Gonave as an Environmental Engineer, working for a DC-based NGO. I helped build treated drinking water facilities for the local […]
An increase in mosquitoes and vector-borne diseases is expected with all the flooding. […]
All the groups before us had been using mosquito nets hung from the ceiling. At our location we only had one ceiling cross beam in one room, so it would have taken a small engineering feat to make ceiling nets work. The (SansBug) tents were definitely the right way to go for us. […]
HODR volunteer, Stephanie, on the SansBug 1-person free-standing mosquito-net tent which she took to Haiti: “I quite enjoyed it and will use it again on my next trip down, hopefully in December.” […]
The SansBug 1-person pop-up mosquito tent is ideal for volunteering abroad and is much more convenient than suspending a net. For their flight, Billy and his team threw their 7 tents in a large duffel bag which can be obtained from any army surplus store. […]
If you have a 6-person-volunteer-team heading to Haiti, what kind of mesh tent do you get them? A $200-professional-backpacker tent for each team member? And if the place you’re going to be staying at has space limitations, are you looking forward to erecting a tent every single night and taking it down the next morning? […]
