Snabbyggda help camp sent to the Philippines - New Technology

Tent Camp from Sudsudan last year. Photo: Andreas Nilsson, MSB

Infrastructure in the Philippines is so ruined that the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB, have not sent their full-scale base camp to the area. Instead, it is a simpler and more snabbyggd variant that has gone away.

After Hurricane Haiyan rampage MSB has sent equipment to three base camps in the Philippines. Base camps is a concept that has been developed to quickly provide aid workers opportunities to work in the affected country.

concept is about tents that can be set up quickly and can accommodate individual living chamber with air conditioning, restaurant kitchens, office spaces, and its own electricity and water treatment plants to camp to be self-sufficient in electricity and water.

But in the Philippines, it is a simpler and lighter version of the base camp that has been sent.

It’s smaller tents and small infrastructure, it has a basic kitchen and not the advanced type of shower facilities, it is a hand pump showers and toilets of a simpler kind says Philip Staake, operations manager for the camp at MSB.

reason why the MSB does not send full base camp conditions of the infrastructure is in place.

-There is no way to move this heavy camp around. The light goes with little manual effort to unload on regular cars. It is lighter in their constituents and thus easier to move around if it would be necessary, says Filip Staake.

The simpler version is also faster to get running. Within a few hours, parts of the camp into use.

-It has a simpler infrastructure. There is no water and not a full restaurant kitchen to be built, says Filip Staake.

Sweden contributes with different types of equipment to various base camps. For the camp to be built along with Estonia contributes MSB with water, kitchen and office.

-Much of the technology we ship’s communications equipment to get internet access via satellite in the various camps, says Filip Staake.

to the estsvenska camp has two water treatment plants sent from MSB. If the capacity of one plant is not enough there is the other supplement.

-One can handle brackish water, then brine, and using reverse osmosis. The second is more of a conventional filter with UV lamp. Such we have used in the past with good results, says Filip Staake.

to another camp, to be built along with Germany, Sweden contributes with the accommodation. Each camp will provide accommodation and employment opportunities for about 30 aid workers in the Philippines.