Author Miyamoto Relief

6 Dec

Recent Success: Shree Janavikash School

Shree Janavikash Secondary School is located in the southwestern part of Kathmandu and close to the Tribhuvan University, the largest university in Nepal. This public school offers education to about 400 students. Most of these students are household workers who have internally migrated from villages to Kathmandu in search of quality education and work. During the […]

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3 Dec

Recent Success: Konbit Bibliyotèk Site Solèy

In a small Haitian municipality northwest of the capital city, violent gangs and political power struggles keep ordinary citizens marginalized. Cite Soleil is Haiti’s largest and most densely populated ghetto and has very limited resources. Though one of the most pressing priorities of the community is education, community members note that there are public spaces for […]

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30 Nov

Recent Success: SESH Students in Nepal

A group of 15 students from Structural Engineering Students for Humanity (SESH) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo traveled to Kathmandu in Nepal in 2018 to help Miyamoto Relief with plans to repair and strengthen a school badly damaged in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. It is the fifth year SESH has volunteered alongside Miyamoto Relief, making […]

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29 Nov

Recent Success: Seismic Restoration and Repair of Gaddi Baithak

The Story of the Gaddi Baithak and this Project After the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Kathmandu in 2015, the United States Embassy in Nepal founded the Gaddi Baithak Restoration Project to make a case for the palace to be repaired and restored instead of abandoning it for eventual demolition. About one-third of Nepal’s […]

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9 Oct

Miyamoto People Rock!

Jon Buckley, a 32-year-old project engineer in our San Diego office, used his vacation and paid his own way to volunteer in Haiti for the firm’s nonprofit, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief.  Jon worked on the retrofit design of the Lycee Nationale de Petion-Ville, a 4,000-student high school that is a serious seismic collapse hazard in […]

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9 Oct

Maggie’s Journal

About a month after landing in Kathmandu to begin my internship with the Miyamoto office in Nepal, I had the chance to go on a true adventure. While only about 60 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu in the Nuwakot district, it’s a journey to reach the Shree Shiladevi Secondary School. The plan was to check on […]

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