U.S. Military consultants in El Salvador say that implementation of modern building code systems can save more lives
than all of the security operations they have employed.
May 20,2022 Michelle Sol Ministra de Vivienda – Directora de Fonavipo (Ministry of Housing)
This mor
ning, we welcomed David Rivard and the team continuing the legacy of don Armando Bukele Kattán with the CASA Construction Manual.
His vision is reaching all of Latin America starting in Ecuador and El Salvador by socializing the program that improves construction practices to reduce the impact of natural disasters on housing.The Housing System Infrastructure Area Teams were trained to implement this model which translates into better quality of new seismoresistant technologies.Nancy and Dave Rivard also met on July 15 with Juan and Laura Corpeno of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs an got a full tour of the amazing work they are doing for veterans in El Salvador starting with the Hospital at the University of El Salvador and the Vetrans Affairs office looking at houstin, job trainng and prosthetic programs. See this LINK
LAUNCH of the Program March 19,2022 – Airline Ambassadors first publically acclaimed trainng program:
On Friday March 18, 2022 the CASA Manual was officially adopted in El Salvador!
Armando Bukele Kattan (father of President Najib Bukele) developed and convinced the U.S. Congress and the Congress in El Salvador to adopt the Codes and Safety for the Americas (CASA) Act in 2002, right after the Santa Tecla Earthquake. This law establishes building code training and mandates the U.S. to build to U.S. building code standards in any country the U.S. provides money for building. Armando represented Kiwanis International and Airline Ambassadors as country director.
Dave Rivard served as the AAI Country Director in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 where AAI became implementing partner to UNICEF and MINUSTAH (UN Stabilization Force in Haiti) to re-build safehouses and police campuses throughout that country. Over the course of this project, his engineering teams, led by engineers Claude Bazile and Virgil Pierrissaint, who provided CASA Training to over 140 engineers in Haiti, visited El Salvador this week to implement the CASA Program in El Salvador and organize a technical exchange program which will immensly help Haiti institutionalize building codes. See on CASA Program Here
The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, Julio Cesar George; Charge de Affairs from Peru Alessandro Alfaro Polar, as well as Lorena Corpeno of Kiwanis Village attended the launch. Michele Sol referred to the group as “Team Armando”.
See tweet from Michele Sol, Minister of Housing of El Salvador:
“The manual approved by the Ministry of @HousingSV , is designed to be an instrument that can be taught in an easy way with the objective that it can be replicated and used by the communities for the construction of affordable housing. Michelle Sol invitation to Michele Sol Event (@misol140) tweeted at 2:50 PM on Fri, Mar 18, 2022:
Esta tarde, estamos entregando los ejemplares del manual de construcción del modelo constructivo aprobado por el Ministerio de @ViviendaSV, para dar impulso al trabajo desarrollado desde 2001 por don @ArmandoBukele con @DavidRivard8, denominado programa CASA. https://t.co/Hy5S88E2aW
(https://twitter.com/misol140/
Afterwards the team visitied the project in El Espino as a possible location for future training program and development!
Afterwards the team visitied the project in El Espino as a possible location for future training program and development!
