3D Printing And Humanitarian Aid Converge

With refugees very much in the public eye, humanitarian aid expert and former employee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Kilian Kleinschmidt argues that there is a role for 3D printing in the creation of a sustainable solution. Rather than using models of aid developed long ago, Kleinschmidt has started an aid consultancy that is making efforts to have a Fab Lab established in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordon. His argument is that by empowering people in their environments we create the mechanisms by which they can create lives that are more than mere survival and, in the meantime, also contribute to the growth of the economies of the countrie's to which they have fled. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/107627/3d-printing-sustainable-aid/
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