Region: Africa
Country: Tanzania
Year: 2018
Shelter: RHU
Project size: 1001-5000
Modality: Temporary shelter
Sector: Shelter
Partner: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Support: Capacity Building
Providing dignity and hope for refugees in Tanzania
Tanzania is currently host to 325,291 refugees. Over 250,000 of them are from Burundi and are faced with a humanitarian crisis marked by economic decline, extreme food insecurity and a disease outbreak. The strong increase of forced displacement in this region has led to a shelter shortage and crisis, due to a lack of funding within the international organizations.
As part of its operations in the country and region, UNHCR implemented over 3000 Better Shelter Relief Housing Units (RHU) to serve as temporary family shelters for Congolese and Burundian refugees in situations of displacement.
“I like how spacious it is and that it has a solar light, windows and lock which makes me feel safer,” says Machumi Godas (35), who lives with her son Nestory in a Better Shelter at UNHCR’s Kigoma refugee camp.
Photos: © UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin
More information about the situation here.
Congolese refugee Apolina Nyassa, 86, lives alone in a Refugee Housing Unit (RHU) given to refugees with special needs, at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania, February 6, 2019. She likes her new house because it keeps out rain and rats but also liked her old mud brick house (which she now uses for cooking). Apolina said she would have liked the roof to be fixed. She talks a lot about resettlement, says there is nothing for her in the camp – no children, no husband and nothing to do for an elderly woman. ; The Refugee Housing Unit RHU is a self-standing, sustainable and durable shelter, designed through a collaboration between UNHCR, the social enterprise Better Shelter and the IKEA Foundation. The RHUs have panels to make up bedrooms, a kitchen area, a lockable door and a LED lamp which provides more than six hours of light. Opened in 1996 Nyarugusu Refugee Camp now houses 154647 refugees from Democratiic Republic of Congo DRC and Burundi.
Congolese refugee Apolina Nyassa, 86, lives alone in a Refugee Housing Unit (RHU) given to refugees with special needs, at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania, February 6, 2019. She likes her new house because it keeps out rain and rats but also liked her old mud brick house (which she now uses for cooking). Apolina said she would have liked the roof to be fixed. She talks a lot about resettlement, says there is nothing for her in the camp – no children, no husband and nothing to do for an elderly woman. ; The Refugee Housing Unit RHU is a self-standing, sustainable and durable shelter, designed through a collaboration between UNHCR, the social enterprise Better Shelter and the IKEA Foundation. The RHUs have panels to make up bedrooms, a kitchen area, a lockable door and a LED lamp which provides more than six hours of light. Opened in 1996 Nyarugusu Refugee Camp now houses 154647 refugees from Democratiic Republic of Congo DRC and Burundi.
Congolese refugee Apolina Nyassa, 86, lives alone in a Refugee Housing Unit (RHU) given to refugees with special needs, at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania, February 6, 2019. She likes her new house because it keeps out rain and rats but also liked her old mud brick house (which she now uses for cooking). Apolina said she would have liked the roof to be fixed. She talks a lot about resettlement, says there is nothing for her in the camp – no children, no husband and nothing to do for an elderly woman. ; The Refugee Housing Unit RHU is a self-standing, sustainable and durable shelter, designed through a collaboration between UNHCR, the social enterprise Better Shelter and the IKEA Foundation. The RHUs have panels to make up bedrooms, a kitchen area, a lockable door and a LED lamp which provides more than six hours of light. Opened in 1996 Nyarugusu Refugee Camp now houses 154647 refugees from Democratiic Republic of Congo DRC and Burundi.
Congolese refugee Apolina Nyassa, 86, lives alone in a Refugee Housing Unit (RHU) given to refugees with special needs, at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania, February 6, 2019. She likes her new house because it keeps out rain and rats but also liked her old mud brick house (which she now uses for cooking). Apolina said she would have liked the roof to be fixed. She talks a lot about resettlement, says there is nothing for her in the camp – no children, no husband and nothing to do for an elderly woman. ; The Refugee Housing Unit RHU is a self-standing, sustainable and durable shelter, designed through a collaboration between UNHCR, the social enterprise Better Shelter and the IKEA Foundation. The RHUs have panels to make up bedrooms, a kitchen area, a lockable door and a LED lamp which provides more than six hours of light. Opened in 1996 Nyarugusu Refugee Camp now houses 154647 refugees from Democratiic Republic of Congo DRC and Burundi.
Congolese refugee Apolina Nyassa, 86, lives alone in a Refugee Housing Unit (RHU) given to refugees with special needs, at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania, February 6, 2019. She likes her new house because it keeps out rain and rats but also liked her old mud brick house (which she now uses for cooking). Apolina said she would have liked the roof to be fixed. She talks a lot about resettlement, says there is nothing for her in the camp – no children, no husband and nothing to do for an elderly woman. ; The Refugee Housing Unit RHU is a self-standing, sustainable and durable shelter, designed through a collaboration between UNHCR, the social enterprise Better Shelter and the IKEA Foundation. The RHUs have panels to make up bedrooms, a kitchen area, a lockable door and a LED lamp which provides more than six hours of light. Opened in 1996 Nyarugusu Refugee Camp now houses 154647 refugees from Democratiic Republic of Congo DRC and Burundi.
