Boa Vista, Brazil: On 5 April 2022, UNHCR Brazil inaugurated a new space for sustainability education and cultural integration in Boa Vista, Roraima. Named the Sustainability Centre (Centro de Sustentabilidade) and initiated in joint partnership with UNHCR the UN Refugee…
While the migration of Rohingya peoples has been steadily growing as early as the 1970’s because of historical persecution, it was the military crackdown in 2017 that triggered a mass population exodus of the Rohingya to the Cox’s Bazar region…
Ruba, 10, lives in a temporary Better Shelter Relief Housing Unit (RHU) in Ariba Camp, Idlib, Northwest Syria. She also goes to school here, and her classroom is housed inside an RHU. The people of Syria have suffered eleven years…
In Camp Esperanza, a community in Austin, Texas, made up of persons experiencing homelessness, The Other Ones Foundation is taking bold strides toward radical progress for current and future residents. Despite ever-complicating circumstances and changing times, there remains one constant…
The digital premiere of Esperanza means hope followed by a panel discussion featuring Chris Baker (TOOF Founder/Executive Director), Emily Ballard (TOOF Community Engagement Specialist), Alec Gondobintoro and Jackson Prince from PhilmCo, and Märta Terne from Better Shelter. Esperanza means hope
The Norman Foster Foundation invited Better Shelter’s Johan Karlsson to participate in the Re-Materializing Housing Public Debates, supported by the Holcim Foundation. It brought together a group of experts from a range of fields to discuss sustainable building practices and…
Children are particularly vulnerable after an emergency. Addressing their mental health is crucial, especially in complex emergencies when, for example, a disaster coincides with a pandemic. Losing one’s home can be a traumatic experience and many children have been living…
بناء مخيم للنازحين من قبل منظومة وطن ومكتب تنسيق الشؤون الإنسانيّة في شمال غرب سوريا (أوتشا) – مساكن مؤقتة أكثر متانة وتوفر حداً أعلى من الحماية والأمان لساكنيها من مؤسسة بِتر شيلتر (ملجأ أفضل). خلال عام 2021، وبالشراكة مع مكتب…
The Relief Housing Unit (RHU) is a modular temporary shelter unit designed to allow for alterations and adaptations for different areas of use. Most of our shelters serve as temporary family shelters to house communities displaced by conflict, disasters and other factors…
In late July 2021, we received photos of a group of Albanian Red Cross volunteers assembling a Relief Housing Unit (RHU) in Laç, Albania for a family that had their house destroyed by an earthquake in the region. According to…