Sheltering faith in Syria
Imagine living in a time and place where you are forced to flee your home. You’ve lost your home, belongings, and maybe some of the people you love. This is the tragic reality for 100 million people around the world.…
Märta Terne
Refugee art to raise awareness
Art has long been a medium to demonstrate both support and resistance for the most pressing issues in the world. The global refugee crisis is one of the most urgent issues in modern history, with 100 million displaced people and…
What is your favourite holiday?
The holidays are unique in culture, geography, and degree of observance. They mean that millions of people around the world will be revisiting their beloved annual traditions with friends, family, and loved ones. Whether known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas,…
Holidays away from home
Years of deepening crises in Venezuela have forced more than 6 million people from their homes, displacing the majority to seventeen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. About 60,000 Venezuelan refugees were living in Brazil when the influx of…
Thank you
Looking back With 2022 coming to a close, we thank the many organisations we have collaborated with in the past year. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without our partners and the front-line workers who continue to…
Protracted crises: the long path towards peace
Right now, millions of people are living in crises that have been out of the spotlight for years. When people are out of the view of international media, donors, and other pivotal aid stakeholders, they suffer in the shadows and…
Better Shelter at the V&A Dundee – Plastic: Remaking our world
Few materials have shaped our world like plastics have in the last century. Plastic, in many ways, is essential, and yet excessive. As anthropogenic climate change becomes a priority in civil society organising, plastics is under scrutiny for its position…
Better Shelter at IKEA Foundation Week
The 2022 edition of the IKEA Foundation Week was held from October 24-28. The week-long event recognised the work resulted from the many partnerships the Foundation has formed with governments, NGOs, businesses, civil society and the individuals who aim to…
Better Shelter’s Johan Karlsson speaks at the Seoul Design Award Conference
On October 25-26 2022, the 4th Seoul Design Award Conference was held in the capital of South Korea, connecting professionals and practitioners across the fields of design, architecture, urban planning, social science and more, to discuss the many ways design…
Walaa and her family find refuge in RHU
The war in Syria is settling into its second decade, already having displaced 13 million people who have fled the country, or are still within the Syrian border. There are nearly 7 million internally displaced people within Syria, with nearly…