Tilt-Bed Trailer for Micro Houses This trailer is a thing of beauty in the way it is engineered. Jim Verploegen of Billings, Montana went over to Bohol for two weeks to lead the IDEA Philippines welders in building this 30’X8.5′ tilt-bed trailer used for delivering our micro or shed homes to the Cohen Village I home site and other sites. The basic …
FOLLOW-UP ON HEARING AIDS Dr. Gene Bukowski is a member of IDEA’s board of directors back in Montana. For many years he has worked closely with Dennis Drake to further the cause of providing hearing aids to IDEA’s deaf children. It was because of Dr. Gene that Starkey Hearing Foundation was introduced to the work of IDEA in the Philippines …
A House Raising Philippine Style IDEA’s deaf families have been waiting a long time to finally see this day arrive. The first four houses are finally being erected on the IDEA purchased one half acre property on the out-skits of Tagbilaran City on the island of Bohol. The government red tape has been deep. These micro homes are just starter …
Like One Big Happy Family This scene up at Bohol Deaf Academy one evening last week was not staged for the camera. Dennis Drake just dropped in and found the deaf kids sitting around on the stage and at a couple of tables doing random projects and chatting. The atmosphere was so very peaceful and so family like that Dennis …
CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization)teamed up with IDEA this February to help improve the food and service of IDEA’s various restaurant businesses.
A New Hotel Theme We recently discovered that one of IDEA’s deaf carpentry employees has an amazing ability at sculpting. Because our Dao Diamond Hotel has changed its motif to Polynesian it was thought that we needed a Tiki or two around to add to the atmosphere so Arnold the carpenter was given a small photo to go by and …
The homes are built in our IDEA shop by our deaf carpenters. We are not able to go down to a Home Depot and buy the lumber. Instead we have to order the lumber rough cut by chainsaw and then bring it into our shop to mill it down to ship-lap siding and studs. It is a very labor and equipment intensive effort. The homes are then either built in knockdown form or totally assembled and delivered to the building site on a trailer or truck.
