Focus on: Reconstruction of the Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico

Every week, the CoHabitat Network introduces you to a collaborative housing project documented on the cohabitat.io database.

In September 2013, hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel hit the Montaña region in the state of Guerrero, causing human losses, damage to roads, houses, crops, farm animals, and affecting more than 40,000 people.

The Montaña region is made up of nineteen municipalities that concentrate 85% of the state's indigenous population - belonging to the Me'phaa, Nusavi and Nahua peoples. In just thirteen municipalities in this region alone, 3,589 houses were reported with cracks or collapse, 1,315 houses were swept away by landslides and another 297 were swept away by rivers.

In response to the emergency, Cooperación Comunitaria initially came to work in the Me'phàà indigenous community of "El Obispo" to rebuild the affected adobe houses, but due to the large number of landslides generated by the meteor, a process of Integral and Social Reconstruction of Habitat was proposed that was appropriate for the emergency situation.

Over eight years the process has involved the participation of more than 3,437 people in different stages of the projects, as well as multiple workshops to strengthen the constructive, productive, territorial and socio-cultural capacities of the inhabitants of 12 communities in the state of Guerrero.

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