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title: 'World Shelters - Bags of Shelter'
description: "This page discusses Bags of Shelter, an earthbag shelter designed for World Shelters to use as transitional shelter for people in Haiti affected by the January 2010 Earthquake. World Shelters is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing housing for disaster relief and general humanitarian needs. A four person design team, Humangineers, designed Bags of Shelter as part of Lonny Grafman's Introduction to Design class at Cal Poly Humboldt."
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