Terrapeg Furniture's system mills ready-to-assemble housing and furniture from wood-fiber panels providing homes for some of the one million people left homeless by the earthquake in Haiti.
When wood technology education teacher Garrett Mattes saw videos of the devastation in Haiti after the recent earthquake, he decided to take action. Mattes put students in his woodworking class at Stow-Munroe Falls High School in Stow, OH, to work, designing and fabricating wood crutches for the victims.