A humanitarian is not a single profession, rather a diverse fabric of people with unique skills and perspectives, coming together with the common goal of helping people. On World Humanitarian Day, we celebrate the work of humanitarians around the world.…
Getting refugees out of tents: can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people? On a day of record-setting heat in Sweden, the production team at the BBC World Service—People Fixing the World podcast visited Better Shelter during a building…
في لقائنا هذا, تحدثنا مع المصور الصحفي السوري الحائز على عدة جوائز, حيث أخبرنا عن مسيرته المهنية ، وأحداث طفولته التي ألهمته التقاط كاميرته وتصوير واقع الحياة اليومي في سوريا التي أنهكتها الحرب. نرى الأم الجبارة في وسط الصورة تمسك…
We talked to the award-winning Syrian photojournalist about his career, and the events of his childhood that inspired him to capture the reality of life in war-torn Syria with his camera. A family matriarch stands in the centre of a…
“I just couldn’t stay there knowing that my mom and dad go through this hell.” Svitlana, 24 Nalyvaikivka is a village in the Buchanskyi district within the Kyiv Oblast, where Yurii (60) built his family home, brick-by-brick, over several years.…
Pride month has got a very different meaning to everyone, but to me it means visibility, it means self-acceptance, it means coming together in solidarity and being who you are Eric Sambisa, 2nd Pride March in Malawi Pride comes to…
Now with over 100 million displaced people around the world, including nearly 13 million forced to flee their homes in Ukraine after only 4 months since the start of the war, the need for more safe and dignified shelter is…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has caused the most significant refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Now with some 14 million civilians forced to flee their homes, one-third of the Ukrainian population is displaced.…
Madrid, Spain: At the first Norman Foster Foundation’s Shelters Workshop supported by Holcim, the anticipated Shelters Public Debate between Norman Foster and Shigeru Ban took place on 8 June 2022. It is not so much a debate but more a…
From 6-10 June 2022, the inaugural Norman Foster Shelters Workshop will take place at the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos in Madrid, Spain. The five-day event will be supported by Holcim, and led by Better Shelter Co-founder and Managing…