“I don’t want to talk about what happened. I don’t even want to think about it. These days, I only want to think about the future,” says 19-year old Ashia resolutely. She is sitting on a cushion on the floor…
8 million Iraqis have been left displaced and much of the country has been destroyed (primarily concentrated in the urban areas in Ninewah and Western Anbar) due to several years of conflict and the collapse of the Islamic State. Today,…
We exhibited a shelter at Aktuell Hållbarhet’s space at Almedalsveckan with Sweden for UNHCR and Better Shelter’s managing director participated in a panel discussion around attracting and keeping talents with effective sustainable development work.
Today, on World Refugee Day, we stand in solidarity with the millions of women, men and children worldwide who have had to flee to escape war and violence. We stand with those who have lost family members, and with those…
Better Shelter will participate in the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, Gotland in Sweden. Almedalen Week is a democratic meeting place for everyone – a place for dialogue, exchange and unexpected meetings with the aim to develop our society. More info…
The World Bank reported last year that if no climate actions are taken, there will be 143 million “internal climate migrants” across Sub-saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America by 2050. However, if we start making (drastic) changes now, the…
Exhibition: Rothko in Lampedusa in collaboration with UNHCR. Location: Palazzo Querini, Dorsoduro 2691, 30123 Venice Opening hours: May 11th to November 24th, 10:00 – 18:00 (closed Monday) Curators: Francesca Giubilei + Luca Berta Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Majid Adin, Christian Boltanski, Rasha Deeb,…
The Dutch photographer and former humanitarian health worker Ruben Timman had a dream in 2001 while on a photo report assignment in Vietnam. In this dream, he was guided through the “Museum of Humanity” by Kofi Annan. The museum was…
A series of violent crackdowns on the Muslim minority group Rohingya in the Rakhine state in Myanmar in 2017 led hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring countries, of which a majority fled to Bangladesh to seek protection from death,…
Iraqi families return to rebuild their lives: Better Shelters offer a feeling of home in a city in ruins Across Iraq, decades of conflict and violence have forced millions of people to leave their homes and flee to other countries…